On 1 November 2016 at 14:50, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:26:54AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Possible current and future outbound interrupt lines (some of these >> would only show up in some unlikely or lots-of-implementation-needed >> cases, I'm just trying to produce an exhaustive list): >> * virtual timer >> * physical timer >> * hyp timer (nested virtualization case) >> * secure timer (unlikely but maybe if EL3 is ever supported inside a VM) >> * gic maintenance interrupt (nested virt again) >> * PMU interrupt > > Thanks for the list, that's good to have around for the future. > > There's also the potential of the EL2 virtual timer for nested VHE > support, right? That's the one I meant by "hyp timer". >> The kernel doesn't know which interrupt number these would be wired >> up to, so they're all just arbitrary outputs, and you could put them >> in one field or split them up into multiple fields, it doesn't make >> much difference. >> > > So if we keep this we're kind of suggesting that we'll have a field per > device type later on. Since this is a u8 and we are talking about up 5 > 5 timers already, 4. > there's not much waste currently, and we have plenty > of padding. I suppose we an always add a 'other_devices' thing later, > so I prefer just sticking with this one for now. Yeah, it's not a big deal either way. thanks -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
