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When a vCPU is HLTed, interrupts with a priority below the processor priority (PPR) should not resume the vCPU while interrupts at or above the PPR should. With posted interrupts, bhyve maintains a bitmap of pending interrupts in PIR descriptor along with a single 'pending' bit. This bit is checked by a CPU running in guest mode at various places to determine if it should be checked. In addition, another CPU can force a CPU in guest mode to check for pending interrupts by sending an IPI to a special IDT vector reserved for this purpose. bhyve had a bug in that it would only notify a guest vCPU of an interrupt (e.g. by sending the special IPI or by resuming it if it was idle due to HLT) if an interrupt arrived that was higher priority than PPR and no interrupts were currently pending. This assumed that if the 'pending' bit was set, any needed notification was already in progress. However, if the first interrupt sent to a HLTed vCPU was lower priority than PPR and the second was higher than PPR, the first interrupt would set 'pending' but not notify the vCPU, and the second interrupt would not notify the vCPU because 'pending' was already set. To fix this, track the priority of pending interrupts in a separate per-vCPU bitmask and notify a vCPU anytime an interrupt arrives that is above PPR and higher than any previously-received interrupt. This was found and debugged in the bhyve port to SmartOS maintained by Joyent. Relevant SmartOS bugs with more background: https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-6829 https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-6930 https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-7354 Submitted by: Patrick Mooney <pmooney@pfmooney.com> Reviewed by: tychon, rgrimes Obtained from: SmartOS / Joyent MFC after: 2 weeks Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19299 |
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