x86/apic/msi: Plug non-maskable MSI affinity race
Evan tracked down a subtle race between the update of the MSI message and the device raising an interrupt internally on PCI devices which do not support MSI masking. The update of the MSI message is non-atomic and consists of either 2 or 3 sequential 32bit wide writes to the PCI config space. - Write address low 32bits - Write address high 32bits (If supported by device) - Write data When an interrupt is migrated then both address and data might change, so the kernel attempts to mask the MSI interrupt first. But for MSI masking is optional, so there exist devices which do not provide it. That means that if the device raises an interrupt internally between the writes then a MSI message is sent built from half updated state. On x86 this can lead to spurious interrupts on the wrong interrupt vector when the affinity setting changes both address and data. As a consequence the device interrupt can be lost causing the device to become stuck or malfun...
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