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* [PATCH v2 0/1] um: MSI parent domain conversion
@ 2025-06-30  6:51 Nam Cao
  2025-06-30  6:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] um: virt-pci: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() Nam Cao
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nam Cao @ 2025-06-30  6:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marc Zyngier, Thomas Gleixner, Richard Weinberger, Anton Ivanov,
	Johannes Berg, linux-um, linux-kernel
  Cc: Nam Cao

The initial implementation of PCI/MSI interrupt domains in the hierarchical
interrupt domain model used a shortcut by providing a global PCI/MSI
domain.

This works because the PCI/MSI[X] hardware is standardized and uniform, but
it violates the basic design principle of hierarchical interrupt domains:
Each hardware block involved in the interrupt delivery chain should have a
separate interrupt domain.

For PCI/MSI[X], the interrupt controller is per PCI device and not a global
made-up entity.

Unsurprisingly, the shortcut turned out to have downsides as it does not
allow dynamic allocation of interrupt vectors after initialization and it
prevents supporting IMS on PCI. For further details, see:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221111120501.026511281@linutronix.de/

The solution is implementing per device MSI domains, this means the
entities which provide global PCI/MSI domain so far have to implement MSI
parent domain functionality instead.

This series converts the um's driver to implement MSI parent domain.

 arch/um/drivers/Kconfig    |  1 +
 arch/um/drivers/virt-pci.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

-- 
2.39.5



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2025-06-30  6:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] um: virt-pci: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() Nam Cao
2025-06-30  6:55   ` Johannes Berg
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