Re: [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses

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On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 13:57 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 26/10/2012 13:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto:
> > The only cases I can think of are the association between a virtual
> > interrupt (ie, an interrupt in the guest interrupt number space) and an
> > in-kernel source for that interrupt, ie, vhost and PCI pass-through
> > essentially.
> 
> If you exclude old-style PCI pass-through and limit yourself to vhost
> and VFIO, you can treat irqfd as "the" in-kernel source of the
> interrupt.  Then you need a mapping between MSIs and numbers used in
> KVM_IRQFD ("GSIs").

Argh. Ok, I get that we need a mapping between an irqfd and a global
number, I don't see where MSIs come into the picture at all here. At
least for us they don't.

> This is what KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING modifies, and basically the mapping is
> modified every time a vector is masked/unmasked in the MSI-X table.

Right and that doesn't make sense for us. In fact I don't understand how
it makes sense for x86 either, but that's because I don't understand how
the APIC works I suppose.

Ben.


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