From: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
To: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>,
'Andre Przywara' <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
eric.auger@st.com
Cc: christoffer.dall@linaro.org,
'Marc Zyngier' <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] KVM: arm/arm64: gsi routing support
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:17:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558D7B10.9040508@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009201d0af23$62b09440$2811bcc0$@samsung.com>
Hi Pavel,
On 06/25/2015 10:46 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> But personally I would prefer we
>> check irqchip routing entries have flat mapping, ie gsi = irqchip.pin
>> since in any case we don't want/expect the userspace to play with that.
>
> Why? On x86 userspace perfectly can play with it. We can imagine some very new qemu version in
> future which has all arch-specific kludges like "direct mapping" removed and relying fully on
> routing which it sets up from scratch, in the same way as x86 qemu does this. Or we can imagine some
> new, legacy-free hypervisor implementation. The gsi == irqchip.pin limitation is just what we have
> now by default, for backwards compatibility. But by design we were never obliged to stick to this.
> Well, it's just MHO...
OK I will get rid of the test. I think the most important is we clearly
state routing doesn't apply to KVM_IRQ_LINE.
Thanks
Eric
>
> Kind regards,
> Pavel Fedin
> Expert Engineer
> Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-26 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-18 17:40 [RFC 0/6] KVM: arm/arm64: gsi routing support Eric Auger
2015-06-18 17:40 ` [RFC 1/6] KVM: api: add kvm_irq_routing_extended_msi Eric Auger
2015-06-22 16:32 ` Andre Przywara
2015-06-23 7:36 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-18 17:40 ` [RFC 2/6] KVM: kvm_host: add kvm_extended_msi Eric Auger
2015-06-18 17:40 ` [RFC 3/6] KVM: irqchip: convey devid to kvm_set_msi Eric Auger
2015-06-18 17:40 ` [RFC 4/6] KVM: arm/arm64: enable irqchip routing Eric Auger
2015-06-18 17:53 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-06-18 18:00 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-18 18:07 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-06-18 17:40 ` [RFC 5/6] KVM: arm/arm64: enable MSI routing Eric Auger
2015-06-18 17:40 ` [RFC 6/6] KVM: arm: implement kvm_set_msi by gsi direct mapping Eric Auger
2015-06-19 6:37 ` [RFC 0/6] KVM: arm/arm64: gsi routing support Pavel Fedin
2015-06-22 8:31 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-22 8:40 ` Andre Przywara
2015-06-22 9:21 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-23 7:38 ` Pavel Fedin
2015-06-23 7:50 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-23 8:50 ` Pavel Fedin
2015-06-23 9:44 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-23 9:03 ` Andre Przywara
2015-06-23 9:33 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-23 12:53 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-24 12:20 ` Pavel Fedin
2015-06-24 13:03 ` Eric Auger
2015-06-25 8:46 ` Pavel Fedin
2015-06-26 16:17 ` Eric Auger [this message]
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