[PATCH 00/10] Introduce Virtual IRQ (VIRQ) framework

Raymond Mao raymondmaoca at gmail.com
Thu May 14 15:57:46 PDT 2026


From: Raymond Mao <raymond.mao at riscstar.com>

This series introduces a Virtual IRQ (VIRQ) framework for OpenSBI to
support domain-aware wired interrupt couriering.

The main use case is to let OpenSBI receive a host HWIRQ in M-mode,
map it into a per-channel VIRQ number space, route it to a target
domain, notify the target S-mode payload, and let that payload
pop/complete the pending VIRQ through an SBI ecall interface.

The implementation is organized as follows:

  - add irqchip helpers for S-mode pending notification
  - extend domain context switching to support VIRQ-driven
    cross-domain couriering and return-to-previous-domain flow
  - add the core VIRQ mapping, routing, and per-(domain,hart)
    pending queue framework
  - add a VIRQ vendor ecall extension for POP and COMPLETE
  - parse sysirq routing rules from DT under /chosen/opensbi-domains
  - derive APLIC target hart routing from sysirq nodes
  - update the irqchip/APLIC path to support deferred completion and
    per-HWIRQ APLIC targets
  - document the DT binding and routing rules

The DT routing model is based on "opensbi,mpxy-sysirq" nodes.
Each interrupts-extended entry contributes one routed physical source,
its entry index becomes the VIRQ number within the selected
opensbi,mpxy-channel-id, and opensbi,domain selects the destination
OpenSBI domain.

This series depends on a previous patch set:
[PATCH v2 1/3] lib: utils: irqchip: implement APLIC hwirq operation hooks
https://lore.kernel.org/opensbi/20260504171342.1655882-1-raymondmaoca@gmail.com/#t

Raymond Mao (10):
  lib: irqchip: add S-mode notification helpers
  lib: sbi: domain: adaptation for supporting VIRQ couriering domain
    context switch
  lib: sbi: Add Virtual IRQ (VIRQ) subsystem
  lib: sbi: Add VIRQ ecall extension
  lib: sbi: domain: add domain lookup by name
  lib: utils: fdt: parse sysirq routing from DT
  lib: utils: irqchip: derive APLIC targets from sysirq nodes
  lib: irqchip: support deferred completion and per-HWIRQ APLIC targets
  lib: sbi: domain: ensure boot_hartid is assigned
  docs: domain: document sysirq VIRQ mapping and routing rules

 docs/domain_support.md                |   63 ++
 include/sbi/sbi_domain.h              |    7 +
 include/sbi/sbi_domain_context.h      |   24 +
 include/sbi/sbi_ecall_interface.h     |   26 +
 include/sbi/sbi_irqchip.h             |   24 +
 include/sbi/sbi_virq.h                |  492 +++++++++++
 include/sbi_utils/fdt/fdt_helper.h    |   17 +
 include/sbi_utils/irqchip/aplic.h     |    1 +
 lib/sbi/Kconfig                       |   10 +
 lib/sbi/objects.mk                    |    4 +
 lib/sbi/sbi_domain.c                  |   49 ++
 lib/sbi/sbi_domain_context.c          |  152 +++-
 lib/sbi/sbi_ecall_virq.c              |   56 ++
 lib/sbi/sbi_irqchip.c                 |   39 +-
 lib/sbi/sbi_trap.c                    |   16 +
 lib/sbi/sbi_virq.c                    | 1136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/utils/fdt/fdt_domain.c            |  119 ++-
 lib/utils/fdt/fdt_helper.c            |   49 ++
 lib/utils/irqchip/aplic.c             |   60 +-
 lib/utils/irqchip/fdt_irqchip_aplic.c |  103 +++
 20 files changed, 2429 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/sbi/sbi_virq.h
 create mode 100644 lib/sbi/sbi_ecall_virq.c
 create mode 100644 lib/sbi/sbi_virq.c

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