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* [PATCH 0/6] irqchip: GICv2/v3: Add support for irq_vcpu_affinity
@ 2015-07-09 13:19 Marc Zyngier
  2015-07-09 13:19 ` [PATCH 1/6] irqchip: GICv3: Convert to EOImode == 1 Marc Zyngier
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From: Marc Zyngier @ 2015-07-09 13:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

The GICv2 and GICv3 architectures allow an active physical interrupt
to be forwarded to a guest, and the guest to indirectly perform the
deactivation of the interrupt by performing an EOI on the virtual
interrupt (see for example the GICv2 spec, 3.2.1).

This allows some substantial performance improvement for level
triggered interrupts that otherwise have to be masked/unmasked in
VFIO, not to mention the required trap back to KVM when the guest
performs an EOI.

To enable this, the GICs need to be switched to a different EOImode,
where a taken interrupt can be left "active" (which prevents the same
interrupt from being taken again), while other interrupts are still
being processed normally.

We also use the new irq_set_vcpu_affinity hook that was introduced for
Intel's "Posted Interrupts" to determine whether or not to perform the
deactivation at EOI-time.

As all of this only makes sense when the kernel can behave as a
hypervisor, we only enable this mode on detecting that the kernel was
actually booted in HYP mode, and that the GIC supports this feature.

This series is a complete rework of a RFC I sent over a year ago:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-June/266328.html

Since then, a lot has been either merged (the irqchip_state) or reworked
(my active-timer series: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg118768.html),
and this implements the last few bits for Eric Auger's series to
finally make it into the kernel:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/2/268
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/6/291

With all these patches combined, physical interrupt routing from the
kernel into a VM becomes possible.

This has been tested on Juno (GICv2) and FastModel (GICv3). A branch
is available at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git irq/gic-irq-vcpu-affinity

Marc Zyngier (6):
  irqchip: GICv3: Convert to EOImode == 1
  irqchip: GIC: Convert to EOImode == 1
  irqchip: GICv3: Skip LPI deactivation
  irqchip: GIC: Use chip_data instead of handler_data for cascaded
    interrupts
  irqchip: GICv3: Don't deactivate interrupts forwarded to a guest
  irqchip: GIC: Don't deactivate interrupts forwarded to a guest

 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c       | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c          | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h |  9 ++++++
 include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h    |  4 +++
 4 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.4

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2015-07-09 13:19 [PATCH 0/6] irqchip: GICv2/v3: Add support for irq_vcpu_affinity Marc Zyngier
2015-07-09 13:19 ` [PATCH 1/6] irqchip: GICv3: Convert to EOImode == 1 Marc Zyngier
2015-08-11  9:14   ` Eric Auger
2015-08-12 12:38     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-09 13:19 ` [PATCH 2/6] irqchip: GIC: " Marc Zyngier
2015-08-11  9:15   ` Eric Auger
2015-08-12 13:31     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-08-12 17:40       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-07-09 13:19 ` [PATCH 3/6] irqchip: GICv3: Skip LPI deactivation Marc Zyngier
2015-08-11  9:42   ` Eric Auger
2015-08-12 13:34     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-08-12 14:28       ` Eric Auger
2015-07-09 13:19 ` [PATCH 4/6] irqchip: GIC: Use chip_data instead of handler_data for cascaded interrupts Marc Zyngier
2015-07-09 21:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-07-10  7:52     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-10  8:17       ` Jiang Liu
2015-07-10  8:21         ` Marc Zyngier
2015-08-11  9:45   ` Eric Auger
2015-08-12 13:41     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-09 13:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] irqchip: GICv3: Don't deactivate interrupts forwarded to a guest Marc Zyngier
2015-08-11 10:03   ` Eric Auger
2015-08-12 14:20     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-08-12 15:09       ` Eric Auger
2015-08-12 15:40         ` Marc Zyngier
2015-08-12 15:51           ` Eric Auger
2015-07-09 13:19 ` [PATCH 6/6] irqchip: GIC: " Marc Zyngier
2015-08-11 10:06 ` [PATCH 0/6] irqchip: GICv2/v3: Add support for irq_vcpu_affinity Eric Auger
2015-08-12 14:21   ` Marc Zyngier

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