Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Wake-up from WFI when iqrchip is in userspace

From: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:36:07 +0100

It appears that there is nothing in the wake-up path that
evaluates whether the in-kernel interrupts are pending unless
we have a vgic.

This means that the userspace irqchip support has been broken for
about four years, and nobody noticed. It was also broken before
as we wouldn't wake-up on a PMU interrupt, but hey, who cares...

It is probably time to remove the feature altogether, because it
was a terrible idea 10 years ago, and it still is.

Fixes: b57de4ffd7c6d ("KVM: arm64: Simplify kvm_cpu_has_pending_timer()")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 176cbe8baad30..8bb2c7422cc8b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -824,6 +824,10 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
 {
 	bool irq_lines = *vcpu_hcr(v) & (HCR_VI | HCR_VF | HCR_VSE);
 
+	irq_lines |= (!irqchip_in_kernel(v->kvm) &&
+		      (kvm_timer_should_notify_user(v) ||
+		       kvm_pmu_should_notify_user(v)));
+
 	return ((irq_lines || kvm_vgic_vcpu_pending_irq(v))
 		&& !kvm_arm_vcpu_stopped(v) && !v->arch.pause);
 }
-- 
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