This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled genirq/msi: Make sure PCI MSIs are activated early to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: genirq-msi-make-sure-pci-msis-are-activated-early.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f3b0946d629c8bfbd3e5f038e30cb9c711a35f10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:18:33 +0100 Subject: genirq/msi: Make sure PCI MSIs are activated early From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> commit f3b0946d629c8bfbd3e5f038e30cb9c711a35f10 upstream. Bharat Kumar Gogada reported issues with the generic MSI code, where the end-point ended up with garbage in its MSI configuration (both for the vector and the message). It turns out that the two MSI paths in the kernel are doing slightly different things: generic MSI: disable MSI -> allocate MSI -> enable MSI -> setup EP PCI MSI: disable MSI -> allocate MSI -> setup EP -> enable MSI And it turns out that end-points are allowed to latch the content of the MSI configuration registers as soon as MSIs are enabled. In Bharat's case, the end-point ends up using whatever was there already, which is not what you want. In order to make things converge, we introduce a new MSI domain flag (MSI_FLAG_ACTIVATE_EARLY) that is unconditionally set for PCI/MSI. When set, this flag forces the programming of the end-point as soon as the MSIs are allocated. A consequence of this is that we have an extra activate in irq_startup, but that should be without much consequence. tglx: - Several people reported a VMWare regression with PCI/MSI-X passthrough. It turns out that the patch also cures that issue. - We need to have a look at the MSI disable interrupt path, where we write the msg to all zeros without disabling MSI in the PCI device. Is that correct? Fixes: 52f518a3a7c2 "x86/MSI: Use hierarchical irqdomains to manage MSI interrupts" Reported-and-tested-by: Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharat.kumar.gogada@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Foster Snowhill <forst@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Matthias Prager <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Jason Taylor <jason.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468426713-31431-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/msi.c | 2 ++ include/linux/msi.h | 2 ++ kernel/irq/msi.c | 11 +++++++++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c @@ -1278,6 +1278,8 @@ struct irq_domain *pci_msi_create_irq_do if (info->flags & MSI_FLAG_USE_DEF_CHIP_OPS) pci_msi_domain_update_chip_ops(info); + info->flags |= MSI_FLAG_ACTIVATE_EARLY; + domain = msi_create_irq_domain(fwnode, info, parent); if (!domain) return NULL; --- a/include/linux/msi.h +++ b/include/linux/msi.h @@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ enum { MSI_FLAG_MULTI_PCI_MSI = (1 << 2), /* Support PCI MSIX interrupts */ MSI_FLAG_PCI_MSIX = (1 << 3), + /* Needs early activate, required for PCI */ + MSI_FLAG_ACTIVATE_EARLY = (1 << 4), }; int msi_domain_set_affinity(struct irq_data *data, const struct cpumask *mask, --- a/kernel/irq/msi.c +++ b/kernel/irq/msi.c @@ -303,6 +303,17 @@ int msi_domain_alloc_irqs(struct irq_dom else dev_dbg(dev, "irq [%d-%d] for MSI\n", virq, virq + desc->nvec_used - 1); + /* + * This flag is set by the PCI layer as we need to activate + * the MSI entries before the PCI layer enables MSI in the + * card. Otherwise the card latches a random msi message. + */ + if (info->flags & MSI_FLAG_ACTIVATE_EARLY) { + struct irq_data *irq_data; + + irq_data = irq_domain_get_irq_data(domain, desc->irq); + irq_domain_activate_irq(irq_data); + } } return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/genirq-msi-make-sure-pci-msis-are-activated-early.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html