linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] s390: ap: implement PAPQ AQIC interception in kernel

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Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:00:55 +0200
From:   Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     borntraeger@...ibm.com, alex.williamson@...hat.com,
        cohuck@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        frankja@...ux.ibm.com, akrowiak@...ux.ibm.com, david@...hat.com,
        schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
        freude@...ux.ibm.com, mimu@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] s390: ap: implement PAPQ AQIC interception in
 kernel

On 30/04/2019 11:37, Halil Pasic wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:32:52 +0200
> Pierre Morel <pmorel@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> +    aqic_gisa.gisa = gisa->next_alert >> 4;
>>>>
>>>> Why gisa->next_alert? Isn't this supposed to get set to gisa origin
>>>> (without some bits on the left)?
> 
> s/left/right/
> 
>>>
>>> Someone already asked this question.
> 
> It must have been in some previous iteration... Can you give me a
> pointer?
> 
>>> The answer is: look at the ap_qirq_ctrl structure, you will see that the
>>> gisa field is 27 bits wide.
> 
> My question was not about the width, but about gisa->next_alert being
> used.
> 
> Regards,
> Halil
> 

Ah, OK, I understand.
it is inherited from the time I allocated the GISA myself, before the 
Mimu GISA/GIB patches.

So now indeed I must use the GISA origin for the case next_alert is used 
by GIB alert queue.


-- 
Pierre Morel
Linux/KVM/QEMU in Böblingen - Germany