From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>,
android-virt@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
tech@virtualopensystems.com, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [Android-virt] [PATCH v9 11/16] ARM: KVM: Inject IRQs and FIQs from userspace
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:59:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50211F58.6080602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9fco6H18QfWWPnuPUvXw4QFufLSEdeybyxc6B+z5OqMg@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/06/2012 08:20 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 3 July 2012 10:01, Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com> wrote:
>> From: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
>>
>> Userspace can inject IRQs and FIQs through the KVM_IRQ_LINE VM ioctl.
>> This ioctl is used since the sematics are in fact two lines that can be
>> either raised or lowered on the VCPU - the IRQ and FIQ lines.
>>
>> KVM needs to know which VCPU it must operate on and whether the FIQ or
>> IRQ line is raised/lowered. Hence both pieces of information is packed
>> in the kvm_irq_level->irq field. The irq fild value will be:
>> IRQ: vcpu_index << 1
>> FIQ: (vcpu_index << 1) | 1
>>
>> This is documented in Documentation/kvm/api.txt.
>
> It occurred to me that rather than encoding the CPU index in the IRQ
> field value, maybe we should just use the per-vcpu version of
> KVM_IRQ_LINE the same way we do for injecting the per-CPU lines
> of the in-kernel (V)GIC ?
What do you mean by "per-vcpu version of KVM_IRQ_LINE"?
>
> (The subtext here is that it would be cool to have QEMU's
> generic interrupt handling code for KVM be able to say "if
> you do a cpu_interrupt()/cpu_reset_interrupt() and async
> interrupt delivery is enabled then just do the per-vcpu ioctl".
> Then there wouldn't need to be any kvm-specific code in
> hw/arm_pic.c at all...)
If you mean "vcpu ioctl", then no, vcpu ioctls must be called from the
vcpu thread.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 8:59 [PATCH v9 00/16] KVM/ARM Implementation Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 8:59 ` [PATCH v9 01/16] ARM: add mem_type prot_pte accessor Christoffer Dall
2012-07-20 14:54 ` Andreas Färber
2012-07-26 21:26 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 8:59 ` [PATCH v9 02/16] ARM: Add config option ARM_VIRT_EXT Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 8:59 ` [PATCH v9 03/16] ARM: Section based HYP idmap Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 8:59 ` [PATCH v9 04/16] KVM: Move KVM_IRQ_LINE to arch-generic code Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 19:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-24 12:37 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:00 ` [PATCH v9 05/16] KVM: Guard mmu_notifier specific code with CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:00 ` [PATCH v9 06/16] ARM: KVM: Initial skeleton to compile KVM support Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:00 ` [PATCH v9 07/16] ARM: KVM: Support Cortex-A15 VCPUs reset Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:00 ` [PATCH v9 08/16] ARM: KVM: Hypervisor inititalization Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:00 ` [PATCH v9 09/16] ARM: KVM: Module unloading support Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:01 ` [PATCH v9 10/16] ARM: KVM: Memory virtualization setup Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:01 ` [PATCH v9 11/16] ARM: KVM: Inject IRQs and FIQs from userspace Christoffer Dall
2012-08-06 17:20 ` [Android-virt] " Peter Maydell
2012-08-07 13:59 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-07 14:12 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-07 14:28 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-07 14:36 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-03 9:01 ` [PATCH v9 12/16] ARM: KVM: World-switch implementation Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 10:07 ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-25 14:16 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:01 ` [PATCH v9 13/16] ARM: KVM: Emulation framework and CP15 emulation Christoffer Dall
2012-07-12 5:35 ` 김민규
2012-07-16 14:09 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-07-17 10:54 ` Min-gyu Kim
2012-07-03 9:01 ` [PATCH v9 14/16] ARM: KVM: Handle guest faults in KVM Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:02 ` [PATCH v9 15/16] ARM: KVM: Handle I/O aborts Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 9:02 ` [PATCH v9 16/16] ARM: KVM: Guest wait-for-interrupts (WFI) support Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 13:10 ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-03 13:14 ` [Android-virt] " Peter Maydell
2012-07-03 13:24 ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-03 13:49 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-03 15:57 ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-26 21:08 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 13:29 ` [PATCH v9 00/16] KVM/ARM Implementation Avi Kivity
2012-07-03 13:51 ` [Android-virt] " Peter Maydell
2012-07-26 21:15 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-07-26 21:21 ` Peter Maydell
2012-07-26 21:25 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-07-03 19:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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