[RFC v2 0/4] chip/vgic adaptations for forwarded irq

[Eric Auger]

On 05/07/2015 11:17 AM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 05:32:53PM +0200, Eric Auger wrote:
>> On 05/06/2015 04:27 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:20:53AM +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
>>>> This series proposes some fixes that appeared to be necessary
>>>> to integrate IRQ forwarding in KVM/VFIO.
>>>>
>>>> - deactivation of the forwarded IRQ in irq_disabled case
>>>> - a specific handling of forwarded IRQ into the VGIC state machine.
>>>> - deactivation of physical IRQ and unforwarding on vgic destruction
>>>> - rb_tree lock in vgic.c
>>>>
>>>> Integrated pieces can be found at
>>>> ssh://git.linaro.org/people/eric.auger/linux.git
>>>> on branch irqfd_integ_v9
>>>>
>>> What are the dependencies for this at this point?
>>>
>>> I assume it relies at least on the split EOI/priority drop changes?
>>
>> Yes it now only depends on split EOI/priority drop changes since
>> "genirq: Saving/restoring the irqchip state of an irq line" now is
>> upstreamed.
>>
>>>
>>> Are you going to respin this when there are newer versions of the
>>> dependencies out, or what are the plans?
>>
>> Yes I will respin according to new versions. I am currently using a
>> rebased version of Marc's original RFC "ARM: Forwarding physical
>> interrupts to a guest VM" (http://lwn.net/Articles/603514/) which is a
>> superset of [PATCH] genirq: Add support for priority-drop/deactivate
>> interrupt controllers.
>>
> 
> ok, once there's movement on the dependency and you respin, I'll review
> the rest of this in detail.

OK thanks

Eric
> 
> -Christoffer
>