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Re: [Xen-devel] Clock Interrupt not occurring. hypervisor_callback not being called. (more info)



Ivan,

How about a memory barrier right before the call to evtchn_notify
in evtchn_set_pending and one before l1 = x86_atomic_xchg(&s->evtchn_pending_sel, 0)
in do_hypervisor_callback?

Regards,
Dave


Ivan Kelly wrote:

Some more info on this problem.
The problem seems to be that evtchn_pending[0] is not being updated
fast enough after the callback is made. Therefore the callback is
running and seeing nothing as pending and discarding anything that
happens.
If i put in something that delays before the start of the inner loop
somewhere, it will work fine. It doesn't have to be a printf, can be a
for(i=0;i<100000;i++) or something similar.
evtchn_pending is set as volatile. Im not sure if this is actually
helping at all though, since I have to use the ACK compiler which is
the only thing that minix will compile with.

Does anyone have any idea on how i can get evtchn_pending to update on time?
Regards
Ivan

<SNIP>
PUBLIC void
do_hypervisor_callback(struct stackframe_s *regs)
{
       unsigned long  l1, l2;
       unsigned int   l1i, l2i, port;
       int            irq;
       shared_info_t *s = hypervisor_shared_info;

       s->vcpu_data[0].evtchn_upcall_pending = 0;

       l1 = x86_atomic_xchg(&s->evtchn_pending_sel, 0);

       while ( l1 != 0 )
       {
/*              kprintf("l1: %x\n");*/
               l1i = x86_scan_forward(l1);
               l1 &= ~(1 << l1i);

               l2 = s->evtchn_pending[l1i] & ~s->evtchn_mask[l1i];
               while ( l2 != 0 )
               {
                       kprintf("l2: %x\n", l2);
                       l2i = x86_scan_forward(l2);
                       l2 &= ~(1 << l2i);

                       port = (l1i << 5) + l2i;

                       if ( (irq = event_to_action[port]) != -1 ) {
                               do_event(irq, regs);
                       }
               }
       }
}
<ENDSNIP>


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