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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	"kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <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: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:21:31 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351282891.12271.60.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508A7AC2.7040400@redhat.com>

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 13:57 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 26/10/2012 13:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto:
> > The only cases I can think of are the association between a virtual
> > interrupt (ie, an interrupt in the guest interrupt number space) and an
> > in-kernel source for that interrupt, ie, vhost and PCI pass-through
> > essentially.
> 
> If you exclude old-style PCI pass-through and limit yourself to vhost
> and VFIO, you can treat irqfd as "the" in-kernel source of the
> interrupt.  Then you need a mapping between MSIs and numbers used in
> KVM_IRQFD ("GSIs").

Argh. Ok, I get that we need a mapping between an irqfd and a global
number, I don't see where MSIs come into the picture at all here. At
least for us they don't.

> This is what KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING modifies, and basically the mapping is
> modified every time a vector is masked/unmasked in the MSI-X table.

Right and that doesn't make sense for us. In fact I don't understand how
it makes sense for x86 either, but that's because I don't understand how
the APIC works I suppose.

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-26 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ 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 20:39   ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 21:19     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-17 22:10     ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-17 23:58       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-18 13:48         ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 13:49           ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-18 15:25             ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-23 10:48           ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 10:52             ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:00               ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 11:04                 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:08                   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-24  0:50             ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-25 11:57               ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 16:14               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 16:32                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 18:27                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:40                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26  9:58                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:09                         ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 10:15                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:22                             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 10:44                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:00                               ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 11:09                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:57                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 12:08                                     ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 12:41                                       ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 20:21                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-10-26 11:17                               ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 11:39                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 12:39                                   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 20:45                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 22:03                                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-27  8:06                                         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-27 10:01                                         ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-28 22:19                                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:37                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:40                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:47                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:47                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:39                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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