xen/events: add a new "late EOI" evtchn framework
commit 54c9de89895e0a36047fcc4ae754ea5b8655fb9d upstream.
In order to avoid tight event channel related IRQ loops add a new
framework of "late EOI" handling: the IRQ the event channel is bound
to will be masked until the event has been handled and the related
driver is capable to handle another event. The driver is responsible
for unmasking the event channel via the new function xen_irq_lateeoi().
This is similar to binding an event channel to a threaded IRQ, but
without having to structure the driver accordingly.
In order to support a future special handling in case a rogue guest
is sending lots of unsolicited events, add a flag to xen_irq_lateeoi()
which can be set by the caller to indicate the event was a spurious
one.
This is part of XSA-332.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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