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From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 6/6] arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Clarify and correct vgic documentation
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:51:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402779067-34478-7-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402779067-34478-1-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org>

The VGIC virtual distributor implementation documentation was written a
very long time ago, before the true nature of the beast had been
partially absorbed into my bloodstream.  I think this amalgamates the
two evil beings (myself and the code) a little more.

Plus, it fixes an actual bug.  ICFRn, pfff.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
index 1f91b3b..cc776af 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c
@@ -36,21 +36,22 @@
  * How the whole thing works (courtesy of Christoffer Dall):
  *
  * - At any time, the dist->irq_pending_on_cpu is the oracle that knows if
- *   something is pending
- * - VGIC pending interrupts are stored on the vgic.irq_pending vgic
- *   bitmap (this bitmap is updated by both user land ioctls and guest
- *   mmio ops, and other in-kernel peripherals such as the
- *   arch. timers) and indicate the 'wire' state.
+ *   something is pending on the CPU interface.
+ * - Interrupts that are pending on the distributor are stored on the
+ *   vgic.irq_pending vgic bitmap (this bitmap is updated by both user land
+ *   ioctls and guest mmio ops, and other in-kernel peripherals such as the
+ *   arch. timers).
  * - Every time the bitmap changes, the irq_pending_on_cpu oracle is
  *   recalculated
  * - To calculate the oracle, we need info for each cpu from
  *   compute_pending_for_cpu, which considers:
  *   - PPI: dist->irq_pending & dist->irq_enable
  *   - SPI: dist->irq_pending & dist->irq_enable & dist->irq_spi_target
- *   - irq_spi_target is a 'formatted' version of the GICD_ICFGR
+ *   - irq_spi_target is a 'formatted' version of the GICD_ITARGETSRn
  *     registers, stored on each vcpu. We only keep one bit of
  *     information per interrupt, making sure that only one vcpu can
  *     accept the interrupt.
+ * - If any of the above state changes, we must recalculate the oracle.
  * - The same is true when injecting an interrupt, except that we only
  *   consider a single interrupt at a time. The irq_spi_cpu array
  *   contains the target CPU for each SPI.
-- 
1.8.5.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-14 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-14 20:51 [RFC PATCH 0/6] arm/arm64: KVM: Various VGIC cleanups and improvements Christoffer Dall
2014-06-14 20:51 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] arm/arm64: KVM: Rename irq_state to irq_pending Christoffer Dall
2014-06-18 14:30   ` Eric Auger
2014-06-22 11:20   ` Marc Zyngier
2014-06-14 20:51 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] arm/arm64: KVM: Rename irq_active to irq_queued Christoffer Dall
2014-06-22 11:25   ` Marc Zyngier
2014-06-30 21:20     ` Christoffer Dall
2014-06-14 20:51 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Clear queued flags on unqueue Christoffer Dall
2014-06-22 11:27   ` Marc Zyngier
2014-06-14 20:51 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Improve handling of GICD_I{CS}PENDRn Christoffer Dall
2014-06-18 14:25   ` Eric Auger
2014-07-07 14:39     ` Christoffer Dall
2014-06-14 20:51 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Fix SGI writes to GICD_I{CS}PENDR0 Christoffer Dall
2014-06-14 20:51 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2014-06-18 14:47   ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Clarify and correct vgic documentation Eric Auger

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