KVM: x86/ioapic: Resample the pending state of an IRQ when unmasking
KVM irqfd based emulation of level-triggered interrupts doesn't work quite correctly in some cases, particularly in the case of interrupts that are handled in a Linux guest as oneshot interrupts (IRQF_ONESHOT). Such an interrupt is acked to the device in its threaded irq handler, i.e. later than it is acked to the interrupt controller (EOI at the end of hardirq), not earlier. Linux keeps such interrupt masked until its threaded handler finishes, to prevent the EOI from re-asserting an unacknowledged interrupt. However, with KVM + vfio (or whatever is listening on the resamplefd) we always notify resamplefd at the EOI, so vfio prematurely unmasks the host physical IRQ, thus a new physical interrupt is fired in the host. This extra interrupt in the host is not a problem per se. The problem is that it is unconditionally queued for injection into the guest, so the guest sees an extra bogus interrupt. [*] There are observed at least 2 user-...
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