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Message-ID: <50476C76.6020008@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:15:02 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, gleb@...hat.com,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] kvm: Use a reserved IRQ source ID for irqfd
On 09/05/2012 06:07 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:46:17PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/21/2012 10:29 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> > KVM_IRQFD currently uses the reserved KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID
>> > which is also shared with userspace injection methods like
>> > KVM_IRQ_LINE. This can cause a conflict if an irqfd triggers on
>> > a GSI asserted through KVM_IRQ_LINE. Move irqfd to it's own
>> > reserved IRQ source ID. Add a capability for userspace to test
>> > for this fix.
>>
>> I don't think we need a cap, rather a backport if we identify real cases
>> where an edge gsi is shared among several devices. Otherwise it is just
>> a theoretical bug before level irqfd is introduced.
>
> In that case, I think it's safer to preserve the "bug" as is: we are
> changing userspace-visible behaviour for edge interrupts otherwise.
> For example if userspace uses kvm_irq_line for an edge
> interrupt, set it to 1, previously it could then
> continue to send any number of interrupts with irqfd,
> now it can't.
If anyone did that, they should have reported a bug, since they surely
didn't expect edges if the line was held high.
>
> Basically the logical OR functionality of source IDs
> does not make sense for edge.
Edge is only interpreted at the ioapic or pic input; the line is just a
line (an open collector line that ORs anything connected to it, or an
equivalent).
>
> How about we do
> if (flags&RESAMPLE)
> source_id = USERSPACE
> else
> source_id = IRQFD
Okay if we identify something that depends on the bug, otherwise not.
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