From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:26:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v6 10/15] KVM: arm64: connect LPIs to the VGIC emulation In-Reply-To: <1466165327-32060-11-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> References: <1466165327-32060-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> <1466165327-32060-11-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> Message-ID: <576ABC50.6000201@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 17/06/16 13:08, Andre Przywara wrote: > LPIs are dynamically created (mapped) at guest runtime and their > actual number can be quite high, but is mostly assigned using a very > sparse allocation scheme. So arrays are not an ideal data structure > to hold the information. > We use an RCU protected list to hold all mapped LPIs. vgic_its_get_lpi() > iterates the list using RCU list primitives, so it's safe to be called > from an non-preemptible context like the KVM exit/entry path. > Also we store a pointer to that struct vgic_irq in our struct its_itte, > so we can easily access it. > Eventually we call our new vgic_its_get_lpi() from vgic_get_irq(), so > the VGIC code gets transparently access to LPIs. > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara I'm skipping the review of this particular patch until you've switched to the kref API. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...