Re: [PATCH v8 29/33] x86/fred: allow FRED systems to use interrupt vectors 0x10-0x1f

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On 6/5/23 07:06, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Mon, Apr 10 2023 at 01:14, Xin Li wrote:
From: "H. Peter Anvin (Intel)" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

FRED inherits the Intel VT-x enhancement of classified events with
a two-level event dispatch logic. The first-level dispatch is on
the event type, and the second-level is on the event vector. This
also means that vectors in different event types are orthogonal,
thus, vectors 0x10-0x1f become available as hardware interrupts.

Enable interrupt vectors 0x10-0x1f on FRED systems (interrupt 0x80 is
already enabled.) Most of these changes are about removing the
assumption that the lowest-priority vector is hard-wired to 0x20.

I'm not really interested in this again premature optimization.

Can we please clarify how the final result of FRED vector layout will
look like?

I rather give up on reclaiming these 16 vectors than making _all_ system
vectors dynamically assignable to avoid an extra partitioning of the
vector space.


So this patch was meant to go *after* the FRED patch set proper.

This patch does not change any of the system vectors except, by necessity, IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR, nor does it change the way they are assigned to fixed vectors today.

It does make the lowest *non*-system vector a variable, but the system vectors are at the end.

This is something that should be commented: the setting of bits in system_vector is really misleading: those aren't "system vectors", they are the vectors reserved for hardware use. On IDT, this means vectors 0-31 because they are used for exceptions, but on FRED interrupts and exceptions are separate; however vectors 0-15 still need to be reserved because the APIC doesn't support them.

We *could* change that, but that is completely independent of this.

	-hpa



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