diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
index a790d5c..1f32191 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@
 #define BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_INST_STORAGE	0x400
 #define BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_INST_SEGMENT	0x480
 #define BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL	0x500
-#define BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL	0x501
 #define BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_HV	0x502
 #define BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_ALIGNMENT	0x600
 #define BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_PROGRAM	0x700
@@ -134,8 +133,7 @@
 #define BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL			14
 #define BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_DECREMENTER		15
 #define BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_PERFORMANCE_MONITOR	16
-#define BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL		17
-#define BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_MAX			18
+#define BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_MAX			17
 
 #define BOOK3S_HFLAG_DCBZ32			0x1
 #define BOOK3S_HFLAG_SLB			0x2
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 906bcbdf..3cd0b9f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -707,6 +707,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
 	u8 hcall_needed;
 	u8 epr_flags; /* KVMPPC_EPR_xxx */
 	u8 epr_needed;
+	u8 external_oneshot;	/* clear external irq after delivery */
 
 	u32 cpr0_cfgaddr; /* holds the last set cpr0_cfgaddr */
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
index 87348e4..66a5521 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ static int kvmppc_book3s_vec2irqprio(unsigned int vec)
 	case 0x400: prio = BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_INST_STORAGE;		break;
 	case 0x480: prio = BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_INST_SEGMENT;		break;
 	case 0x500: prio = BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL;		break;
-	case 0x501: prio = BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL;	break;
 	case 0x600: prio = BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_ALIGNMENT;		break;
 	case 0x700: prio = BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_PROGRAM;		break;
 	case 0x800: prio = BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_FP_UNAVAIL;		break;
@@ -236,18 +235,35 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvmppc_core_dequeue_dec);
 void kvmppc_core_queue_external(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
                                 struct kvm_interrupt *irq)
 {
-	unsigned int vec = BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL;
-
-	if (irq->irq == KVM_INTERRUPT_SET_LEVEL)
-		vec = BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL;
+	/*
+	 * This case (KVM_INTERRUPT_SET) should never actually arise for
+	 * a pseries guest (because pseries guests expect their interrupt
+	 * controllers to continue asserting an external interrupt request
+	 * until it is acknowledged at the interrupt controller), but is
+	 * included to avoid ABI breakage and potentially for other
+	 * sorts of guest.
+	 *
+	 * There is a subtlety here: HV KVM does not test the
+	 * external_oneshot flag in the code that synthesizes
+	 * external interrupts for the guest just before entering
+	 * the guest.  That is OK even if userspace did do a
+	 * KVM_INTERRUPT_SET on a pseries guest vcpu, because the
+	 * caller (kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt) does a kvm_vcpu_kick()
+	 * which ends up doing a smp_send_reschedule(), which will
+	 * pull the guest all the way out to the host, meaning that
+	 * we will call kvmppc_core_prepare_to_enter() before entering
+	 * the guest again, and that will handle the external_oneshot
+	 * flag correctly.
+	 */
+	if (irq->irq == KVM_INTERRUPT_SET)
+		vcpu->arch.external_oneshot = 1;
 
-	kvmppc_book3s_queue_irqprio(vcpu, vec);
+	kvmppc_book3s_queue_irqprio(vcpu, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL);
 }
 
 void kvmppc_core_dequeue_external(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(vcpu, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL);
-	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(vcpu, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL);
 }
 
 void kvmppc_core_queue_data_storage(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, ulong dar,
@@ -278,7 +294,6 @@ static int kvmppc_book3s_irqprio_deliver(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		vec = BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_DECREMENTER;
 		break;
 	case BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL:
-	case BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL:
 		deliver = (kvmppc_get_msr(vcpu) & MSR_EE) && !crit;
 		vec = BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL;
 		break;
@@ -352,8 +367,16 @@ static bool clear_irqprio(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int priority)
 		case BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_DECREMENTER:
 			/* DEC interrupts get cleared by mtdec */
 			return false;
-		case BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL:
-			/* External interrupts get cleared by userspace */
+		case BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL:
+			/*
+			 * External interrupts get cleared by userspace
+			 * except when set by the KVM_INTERRUPT ioctl with
+			 * KVM_INTERRUPT_SET (not KVM_INTERRUPT_SET_LEVEL).
+			 */
+			if (vcpu->arch.external_oneshot) {
+				vcpu->arch.external_oneshot = 0;
+				return true;
+			}
 			return false;
 	}
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_xics.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_xics.c
index 758d1d2..8b9f356 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_xics.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_xics.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static void icp_rm_set_vcpu_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 
 	/* Mark the target VCPU as having an interrupt pending */
 	vcpu->stat.queue_intr++;
-	set_bit(BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL, &vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions);
+	set_bit(BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL, &vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions);
 
 	/* Kick self ? Just set MER and return */
 	if (vcpu == this_vcpu) {
@@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ static void icp_rm_set_vcpu_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 static void icp_rm_clr_vcpu_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	/* Note: Only called on self ! */
-	clear_bit(BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL,
-		  &vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions);
+	clear_bit(BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL, &vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions);
 	mtspr(SPRN_LPCR, mfspr(SPRN_LPCR) & ~LPCR_MER);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
index 1d14046..77960e6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
@@ -1122,11 +1122,11 @@ kvmppc_cede_reentry:		/* r4 = vcpu, r13 = paca */
 
 	/* Check if we can deliver an external or decrementer interrupt now */
 	ld	r0, VCPU_PENDING_EXC(r4)
-	rldicl	r0, r0, 64 - BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL, 63
+	rldicl	r0, r0, 64 - BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL, 63
 	cmpdi	cr1, r0, 0
 	andi.	r8, r11, MSR_EE
 	mfspr	r8, SPRN_LPCR
-	/* Insert EXTERNAL_LEVEL bit into LPCR at the MER bit position */
+	/* Insert EXTERNAL bit into LPCR at the MER bit position */
 	rldimi	r8, r0, LPCR_MER_SH, 63 - LPCR_MER_SH
 	mtspr	SPRN_LPCR, r8
 	isync
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
index 614ebb4..059683e4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c
@@ -1246,7 +1246,6 @@ int kvmppc_handle_exit_pr(struct kvm_run *run, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		r = RESUME_GUEST;
 		break;
 	case BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL:
-	case BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL:
 	case BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_HV:
 	case BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_H_VIRT:
 		vcpu->stat.ext_intr_exits++;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xics.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xics.c
index b8356cd..d9ba1b0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xics.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xics.c
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ static inline bool icp_try_update(struct kvmppc_icp *icp,
 	 */
 	if (new.out_ee) {
 		kvmppc_book3s_queue_irqprio(icp->vcpu,
-					    BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL);
+					    BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL);
 		if (!change_self)
 			kvmppc_fast_vcpu_kick(icp->vcpu);
 	}
@@ -593,8 +593,7 @@ static noinline unsigned long kvmppc_h_xirr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	u32 xirr;
 
 	/* First, remove EE from the processor */
-	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(icp->vcpu,
-				      BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL);
+	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(icp->vcpu, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL);
 
 	/*
 	 * ICP State: Accept_Interrupt
@@ -754,8 +753,7 @@ static noinline void kvmppc_h_cppr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cppr)
 	 * We can remove EE from the current processor, the update
 	 * transaction will set it again if needed
 	 */
-	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(icp->vcpu,
-				      BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL);
+	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(icp->vcpu, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL);
 
 	do {
 		old_state = new_state = READ_ONCE(icp->state);
@@ -1167,8 +1165,7 @@ int kvmppc_xics_set_icp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 icpval)
 	 * Deassert the CPU interrupt request.
 	 * icp_try_update will reassert it if necessary.
 	 */
-	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(icp->vcpu,
-				      BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL_LEVEL);
+	kvmppc_book3s_dequeue_irqprio(icp->vcpu, BOOK3S_INTERRUPT_EXTERNAL);
 
 	/*
 	 * Note that if we displace an interrupt from old_state.xisr,
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive_template.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive_template.c
index 4171ede..203ea65 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive_template.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_xive_template.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ X_STATIC unsigned long GLUE(X_PFX,h_xirr)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * set by pull or an escalation interrupts).
 	 */
 	if (test_bit(BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL, &vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions))
-		clear_bit(BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL,
+		clear_bit(BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL,
 			  &vcpu->arch.pending_exceptions);
 
 	pr_devel(" new pending=0x%02x hw_cppr=%d cppr=%d\n",
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/trace_book3s.h b/arch/powerpc/kvm/trace_book3s.h
index f3b2375..372a82f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/trace_book3s.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/trace_book3s.h
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 	{0x400, "INST_STORAGE"}, \
 	{0x480, "INST_SEGMENT"}, \
 	{0x500, "EXTERNAL"}, \
-	{0x501, "EXTERNAL_LEVEL"}, \
 	{0x502, "EXTERNAL_HV"}, \
 	{0x600, "ALIGNMENT"}, \
 	{0x700, "PROGRAM"}, \
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hv_exits.h b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hv_exits.h
index 853b95d1..2011376 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hv_exits.h
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/book3s_hv_exits.h
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 	{0x400, "INST_STORAGE"}, \
 	{0x480, "INST_SEGMENT"}, \
 	{0x500, "EXTERNAL"}, \
-	{0x501, "EXTERNAL_LEVEL"}, \
 	{0x502, "EXTERNAL_HV"}, \
 	{0x600, "ALIGNMENT"}, \
 	{0x700, "PROGRAM"}, \
