[PATCH 0/3] RFC: virtual device as irq injection interface

Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-31T18:58:55Z

As promised, here's a (compile-tested only) patchset that proposes
an alternative interrupt injection interface, not using eventfd.

The idea here is that we give user the ability to create "virtual
device" file descriptors from kvm context, and bind them to in-kernel
drivers. One kind of such device would be virt_irq which let the user
inject interrupts. This seems to solve all potential lifetime
and locking issues because we control file_operations for both kvm fd
and the device(irq) fd.

Another kind of device could be kernel-level virtio_net_host implementation
(which is really why I started writing this code).

As an attempt to make virtual devices more useful, they actually use an
abstract virt_hypervisor interface. I have currently only implemented
it in kvm, but it will be possible to have lguest implement it as well,
and then lguest will be able to use e.g. in-kernel virtio-net.

Let's discuss whether we want this, or eventfd, or both.

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MST

Michael S. Tsirkin (3):
virt-core: binding together drivers and hypervisors
kvm: virtual device support
virt_irq: virtual device for injecting interrupts

arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/virt/Kconfig | 11 +++++
drivers/virt/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/virt/virt_core.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/virt/virt_irq.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/kvm.h | 13 +++++
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 3 +
include/linux/virt.h | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/virt_irq.h | 19 ++++++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
11 files changed, 380 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/virt_core.c
create mode 100644 drivers/virt/virt_irq.c
create mode 100644 include/linux/virt.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/virt_irq.h