[RFC v2 0/4] chip/vgic adaptations for forwarded irq

[christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 05:32:53PM +0200, Eric Auger wrote:
> On 05/06/2015 04:27 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:20:53AM +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> >> This series proposes some fixes that appeared to be necessary
> >> to integrate IRQ forwarding in KVM/VFIO.
> >>
> >> - deactivation of the forwarded IRQ in irq_disabled case
> >> - a specific handling of forwarded IRQ into the VGIC state machine.
> >> - deactivation of physical IRQ and unforwarding on vgic destruction
> >> - rb_tree lock in vgic.c
> >>
> >> Integrated pieces can be found at
> >> ssh://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/linux.git
> >> on branch irqfd_integ_v9
> >>
> > What are the dependencies for this at this point?
> > 
> > I assume it relies at least on the split EOI/priority drop changes?
> 
> Yes it now only depends on split EOI/priority drop changes since
> "genirq: Saving/restoring the irqchip state of an irq line" now is
> upstreamed.
> 
> > 
> > Are you going to respin this when there are newer versions of the
> > dependencies out, or what are the plans?
> 
> Yes I will respin according to new versions. I am currently using a
> rebased version of Marc's original RFC "ARM: Forwarding physical
> interrupts to a guest VM" (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) which is a
> superset of [PATCH] genirq: Add support for priority-drop/deactivate
> interrupt controllers.
> 

ok, once there's movement on the dependency and you respin, I'll review
the rest of this in detail.

-Christoffer