Subject: [PATCH] arm/arm64: vgic: Remove unreachable irq_clear_pending

From: [email-masked] (Andre Przywara)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:04:11 +0000

Hej Christoffer,

On 24/11/14 09:41, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> When 'injecting' an edge-triggered interrupt with a falling edge we
> shouldn't clear the pending state on the distributor.  In fact, we
> don't, because the check in vgic_validate_injection would prevent us
> from ever reaching this bit of code.
> 
> Remove the unreachable snippet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Andre Przywara <[email-masked]>

I agree on this. Would it make sense to rewrite this function a bit to
make it more clearer what happens? I find the nesting of the
if-statements counter-intuitive: I'd prefer to first differentiate
between level and edge triggered and then only check the actual level in
the level-triggered branch. Not sure if it's worth the fuss, though.

Cheers,
Andre.

> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> index 3aaca49..f45cf16 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
> @@ -1643,8 +1643,6 @@ static bool vgic_update_irq_pending(struct kvm *kvm, int cpuid,
>  			vgic_dist_irq_clear_level(vcpu, irq_num);
>  			if (!vgic_dist_irq_soft_pend(vcpu, irq_num))
>  				vgic_dist_irq_clear_pending(vcpu, irq_num);
> -		} else {
> -			vgic_dist_irq_clear_pending(vcpu, irq_num);
>  		}
>  	}
>  
>