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From: Carsten Otte <cotte-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
	avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Should we move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt to arch?
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:08:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474D221B.9060508@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCA3911D-wq7ZOvIWXbMAbVU2wMM1CrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> 	Since IA64's irqchip is always in kernel side, so we don't need
> kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt for irq delivery. Should we moved it to arch?
> Otherwise, we have to define two unnecessary fields(irq_summary and
> irq_pending) for vcpu structure for compile pass.
We don't have an irqchip at all. Nevertheless we have the need to 
inject interrupts from userspace. How does the in-kernel irqchip get 
triggered to present an interruption from userland?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28  7:49 Should we move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_interrupt to arch? Zhang, Xiantao
     [not found] ` <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCA3911D-wq7ZOvIWXbMAbVU2wMM1CrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28  8:08   ` Carsten Otte [this message]
     [not found]     ` <474D221B.9060508-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28  8:17       ` Zhang, Xiantao
     [not found]         ` <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDCA39142-wq7ZOvIWXbMAbVU2wMM1CrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28  8:29           ` Carsten Otte
2007-11-28  9:58   ` Avi Kivity

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