[RFC v2 3/6] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding control

[Wu, Feng]

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> From: Wu, Feng
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 7:24 PM
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> Subject: RE: [RFC v2 3/6] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:pbonzini at redhat.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 7:22 PM
> > To: Wu, Feng; Eric Auger; eric.auger at st.com;
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> > kvm at vger.kernel.org; christoffer.dall at linaro.org; marc.zyngier at arm.com;
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> > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; patches at linaro.org
> > Subject: Re: [RFC v2 3/6] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding
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> > On 07/07/2015 13:18, Wu, Feng wrote:
> > > Then I still need assign prod and de-assign prod in
> > > irq_bypass_register_consumer/irq_bypass_unregister_consumer, Right?
> > > Would you please share why this is better.
> >
> > The need to store the consumer->producer link seems to be unique to
> > posted interrupts.  It is difficult to say without seeing the PI code,
> > but I prefer to keep the bypass manager as small as possible.
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> Fine. I will follow your suggestion!

If using the following changes, how can we assign 'prod', we need to use
container_of to get struct kvm_kernel_irqfd and then refer to 'prod', but
we cannot do this in irq_bypass_register_consumer(), right? It is a
common API. But we can only get the associated producer info inside
bypass manager, right?

Thanks,
Feng

struct kvm_kernel_irqfd {

 	......

 	struct irq_bypass_consumer cons;
 	struct irq_bypass_producer *prod;
};


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> Thanks,
> Feng
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> > Paolo