What started this series is Andre's SPI and group interrupts tests [1],
which prompted me to attempt to rewrite check_acked() so it's more flexible
and not so complicated to review. When I was doing that I noticed that the
message passing pattern for accesses to the acked, bad_irq and bad_sender
arrays didn't look quite right, and that turned into the first 7 patches of
the series. Even though the diffs are relatively small, they are not
trivial and the reviewer can skip them for the more palatable patches that
follow. I would still appreciate someone having a look at the memory
ordering fixes.
Patch #8 ("Split check_acked() into two functions") is where check_acked()
is reworked with an eye towards supporting different timeout values or
silent reporting without adding too many arguments to check_acked().
After changing the IPI tests, I turned my attention to the LPI tests, which
followed the same memory synchronization patterns, but invented their own
interrupt handler and testing functions. Instead of redoing the work that I
did for the IPI tests, I decided to convert the LPI tests to use the same
infrastructure.
I ran tests on the following machines:
- Ampere EMAG: all arm64 tests 10,000+ times (combined) under qemu and
kvmtool.
- rockpro64: the arm GICv2 and GICv3 tests 10,000+ times under kvmtool (I
chose kvmtool because it's faster than qemu); the arm64 gic tests (GICv2
and GICv3) 5000+ times with qemu (didn't realize that ./run_tests.sh -g
gic doesn't include the its tests); the arm64 GICv2 and GICv3 and ITS
tests under kvmtool 13,000+ times.
I didn't see any issues.
Changes in v2:
* Gathered Reviewed-by tags, thank you for the feedback!
* Modified code comments in #1 ("lib: arm/arm64: gicv3: Add missing barrier
when sending IPIs") as per review suggestions.
* Moved the barrier() in gicv2_ipi_send_self() from #3 ("arm/arm64: gic:
Remove memory synchronization from ipi_clear_active_handler()") to #2
("lib: arm/arm64: gicv2: Add missing barrier when sending IPIs").
* Renamed #3, changed "[..] Remove memory synchronization [..]" to
"[..] Remove SMP synchronization [..]".
* Moved the removal of smp_rmb() from check_spurious() from #5 ("arm/arm64:
gic: Use correct memory ordering for the IPI test") to patch #7
("arm/arm64: gic: Wait for writes to acked or spurious to complete").
* Fixed typos in #8 ("arm/arm64: gic: Split check_acked() into two
functions").
* Patch #10 ("arm64: gic: its-trigger: Don't trigger the LPI while it is
pending") is new. It was added to fix an issue found in v1 [2].
* Patch #11 ("lib: arm64: gic-v3-its: Add wmb() barrier before INT
command") is also new; it was split from #12 ("arm64: gic: Use IPI test
checking for the LPI tests") following review comments.
* Removed the now redundant call to stats_reset() from its_prerequisites()
in #12 ("arm64: gic: Use IPI test checking for the LPI tests").
[1] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2019-November/037853.html
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm-arm/msg43628.html
Alexandru Elisei (12):
lib: arm/arm64: gicv3: Add missing barrier when sending IPIs
lib: arm/arm64: gicv2: Add missing barrier when sending IPIs
arm/arm64: gic: Remove SMP synchronization from
ipi_clear_active_handler()
arm/arm64: gic: Remove unnecessary synchronization with stats_reset()
arm/arm64: gic: Use correct memory ordering for the IPI test
arm/arm64: gic: Check spurious and bad_sender in the active test
arm/arm64: gic: Wait for writes to acked or spurious to complete
arm/arm64: gic: Split check_acked() into two functions
arm/arm64: gic: Make check_acked() more generic
arm64: gic: its-trigger: Don't trigger the LPI while it is pending
lib: arm64: gic-v3-its: Add wmb() barrier before INT command
arm64: gic: Use IPI test checking for the LPI tests
lib/arm/gic-v2.c | 4 +
lib/arm/gic-v3.c | 6 +
lib/arm64/gic-v3-its-cmd.c | 6 +
arm/gic.c | 341 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
4 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
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2.29.2
