Re: [PATCH v7] pci: quirk to skip msi disable on shutdown

On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 06:32:35PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

On some hypervisors, virtio devices tend to generate spurious interrupts
when switching between MSI and non-MSI mode.  Normally, either MSI or
non-MSI is used and all is well, but during shutdown, linux disables MSI
which then causes an "irq %d: nobody cared" message, with irq being
subsequently disabled.

My understanding is:

  Linux disables MSI/MSI-X during device shutdown.  If the device
  signals an interrupt after that, it may use INTx.

This INTx interrupt is not necessarily spurious.  Using INTx to signal an
interrupt that occurs when MSI is disabled seems like reasonable behavior
for any PCI device.

And it doesn't seem related to switching between MSI and non-MSI mode.
Yes, the INTx happens *after* disabling MSI, but it is not at all
*because* we disabled MSI.  So I wouldn't say "they generate spurious
interrupts when switching between MSI and non-MSI."

Why doesn't virtio-pci just register an INTx handler in addition to an MSI
handler?

Bjorn