From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:58:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350518331.4678.114.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121017221022.GA4333@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 09:10 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> With the XICS, there are two types of irqchip: a source controller and
> a presentation controller. There is one presentation controller per
> vcpu and typically one source controller per PCI host bridge (a source
> controller can manage multiple sources). The "buid" above is
> basically an identifier for a source controller.
>
> So with the above, it would be quite easy to add new types and
> arguments for them.
The only possible issue is that afiak, the ioctl number depends on the
structure size, no ? If it does, then we should add some padding to the
union to leave room for new types.
Cheers,
Ben.
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:58:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350518331.4678.114.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121017221022.GA4333@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 09:10 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> With the XICS, there are two types of irqchip: a source controller and
> a presentation controller. There is one presentation controller per
> vcpu and typically one source controller per PCI host bridge (a source
> controller can manage multiple sources). The "buid" above is
> basically an identifier for a source controller.
>
> So with the above, it would be quite easy to add new types and
> arguments for them.
The only possible issue is that afiak, the ioctl number depends on the
structure size, no ? If it does, then we should add some padding to the
union to leave room for new types.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-17 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-14 0:04 [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses Christoffer Dall
2012-10-14 0:04 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] KVM: ARM: Introduce KVM_INIT_IRQCHIP ioctl Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 20:21 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-17 20:23 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 20:31 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-17 20:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 12:20 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-19 18:42 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-14 0:04 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] KVM: ARM: Introduce KVM_SET_DEVICE_ADDRESS ioctl Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 20:29 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-19 18:46 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-19 20:24 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-19 20:27 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-19 20:33 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-14 0:04 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] KVM: ARM: Split KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP and KVM_INIT_IRQCHIP Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 11:15 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-17 20:38 ` [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses Alexander Graf
2012-10-17 20:38 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-17 20:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 20:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-17 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-17 22:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-17 22:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-17 23:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-10-17 23:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-18 13:48 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 13:48 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 13:49 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-18 13:49 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-18 15:25 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-18 15:25 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-23 10:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 10:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 10:52 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 10:52 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 11:04 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:04 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:08 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 11:08 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-24 0:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-24 0:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-25 11:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 11:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 16:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 16:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 16:32 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 16:32 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 18:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 18:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-25 19:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 9:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 9:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:09 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 10:09 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 10:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 10:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 11:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 11:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 12:08 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 12:08 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 12:41 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 12:41 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 20:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 20:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:17 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 11:17 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 11:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 12:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 12:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 20:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 20:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 22:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 22:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-27 8:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-27 8:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-27 10:01 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-27 10:01 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-28 22:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-28 22:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 11:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-25 19:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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