As GICv4.1 understands the life cycle of doorbells (instead of just randomly firing them at the most inconvenient time), just enable them at irq_request time, and be done with it. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c index 1eb0f8c76219..c2fcde104ea2 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v4.c @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ int vgic_v4_init(struct kvm *kvm) kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) { int irq = dist->its_vm.vpes[i]->irq; + unsigned long irq_flags = DB_IRQ_FLAGS; /* * Don't automatically enable the doorbell, as we're @@ -148,8 +149,14 @@ int vgic_v4_init(struct kvm *kvm) * blocked. Also disable the lazy disabling, as the * doorbell could kick us out of the guest too * early... + * + * On GICv4.1, the doorbell is managed in HW and must + * be left enabled. */ - irq_set_status_flags(irq, DB_IRQ_FLAGS); + if (kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4_1) + irq_flags &= ~IRQ_NOAUTOEN; + irq_set_status_flags(irq, irq_flags); + ret = request_irq(irq, vgic_v4_doorbell_handler, 0, "vcpu", vcpu); if (ret) { -- 2.20.1