[RFC 12/17] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding control

[Wu, Feng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:pbonzini at redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 9:41 PM
> To: Eric Auger; eric.auger at st.com; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu; kvm at vger.kernel.org;
> christoffer.dall at linaro.org; marc.zyngier at arm.com;
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> Wu, Feng; joro at 8bytes.org; b.reynal at virtualopensystems.com
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; patches at linaro.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC 12/17] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding
> control
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> On 02/07/2015 15:17, Eric Auger wrote:
> > - new fields are added on producer side: linux irq, vfio_device handle,
> >   active which reflects whether the source is active (at interrupt
> >   controller level or at VFIO level - automasked -) and finally an
> >   opaque pointer which will be used to point to the vfio_platform_device
> >   in this series.
> 
> Linux IRQ and active should be okay.  As to the vfio_device handle, you
> should link it from the vfio_platform_device instead.  And for the
> vfio_platform_device, you can link it from the vfio_platform_irq instead.
> 
> Once you've done this, embed the irq_bypass_producer struct in the
> vfio_platform_irq struct; in the new kvm_arch_* functions, go back to
> the vfio_platform_irq struct via container_of.  From there you can
> retrieve pointers to the vfio_platform_device and the vfio_device.
> 
> > - new fields on consumer side: the kvm handle, the gsi
> 
> You do not need to add these.  Instead, add the kvm handle to irqfd
> only.  Like above, embed the irq_bypass_consumer struct in the irqfd
> struct; in the new kvm_arch_* functions, go back to the
> vfio_platform_irq struct via container_of.
> 

I also need the gsi field here, for posted-interrupts, I need 'gsi', 'irq' to
update the IRTE.

Thanks,
Feng


> Paolo