On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 06:37:36PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:41:07PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:27:39PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > > -1 here ?
> > > >
> > > I think 1 is better here. For level=0 we always want to report that interrupt
> > > was injected and for the case of edge triggered interrupt and level=1
> > > ioapic_service() will always be called. BTW it seems that expression
> > > old_irr != ioapic->irr in:
> > > if ((!entry.fields.trig_mode && old_irr != ioapic->irr)
> > > || !entry.fields.remote_irr)
> > > ret = ioapic_service(ioapic, irq);
> > > Will always be true since for edge triggered interrupt irr is always
> > > cleared by ioapic_service(). Am I right?
> >
> > Right, I was thinking about
> >
> > if (irq >= 0 && irq < IOAPIC_NUM_PINS) {
> >
> > Should return MASKED if irq is outside the acceptable range?
> >
> Is this ever can be false? Should we BUG() if irq is out of range?
If qemu-kvm passes it ouf range IRQ yes. Its just a nitpicking, ignore
it.
> > That assumes guests won't mask the interrupt temporarily in the irqchip,
> > hope that is OK (as Avi noted earlier guests use CPU to mask irqs
> > temporarily, most of the time).
> And if a guest masks interrupts it can't complain that some are lost. I
> haven't seen Windows masking RTC irq.
Makes sense.
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