Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932196AbaLDOGG (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:06:06 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:39144 "EHLO mail-wg0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753937AbaLDOGE (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:06:04 -0500 Message-ID: <548069F6.7020308@linaro.org> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:04:38 +0100 From: Eric Auger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Feng Wu , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, gleb@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, joro@8bytes.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, jiang.liu@linux.intel.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [v2 17/25] KVM: kvm-vfio: User API for VT-d Posted-Interrupts References: <1417592394-24343-1-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> <1417592394-24343-18-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1417592394-24343-18-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Feng, On 12/03/2014 08:39 AM, Feng Wu wrote: > This patch adds and documents a new attribute > KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_POSTING_IRQ in KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE group. > This new attribute is used for VT-d Posted-Interrupts. > > When guest OS changes the interrupt configuration for an > assigned device, such as, MSI/MSIx data/address fields, > QEMU will use this IRQ attribute to tell KVM to update the > related IRTE according the VT-d Posted-Interrrupts Specification, > such as, the guest vector should be updated in the related IRTE. > > Signed-off-by: Feng Wu > --- > Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt | 9 +++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 10 ++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt > index f7aff29..41e12b7 100644 > --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vfio.txt > @@ -42,3 +42,12 @@ activated before VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS has been called to trigger the IRQ > or associate an eventfd to it. Unforwarding can only be called while the > signaling has been disabled with VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS. If this condition is > not satisfied, the command returns an -EBUSY. > + > + KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_POSTING_IRQ: Use posted interrtups mechanism to post typo > + the IRQ to guests. > +For this attribute, kvm_device_attr.addr points to a kvm_vfio_dev_irq struct. > + > +When guest OS changes the interrupt configuration for an assigned device, > +such as, MSI/MSIx data/address fields, QEMU will use this IRQ attribute > +to tell KVM to update the related IRTE according the VT-d Posted-Interrrupts > +Specification, such as, the guest vector should be updated in the related IRTE. For my curiosity are there any restrictions about the instant at which the change can be done? I do not get here how you deactivate the posting? > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h > index a269a42..7d98650 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h > @@ -949,6 +949,7 @@ struct kvm_device_attr { > #define KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE 2 > #define KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_FORWARD_IRQ 1 > #define KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_UNFORWARD_IRQ 2 > +#define KVM_DEV_VFIO_DEVICE_POSTING_IRQ 3 Maybe we should align our naming verb vs verbing here? Best Regards Eric > > enum kvm_device_type { > KVM_DEV_TYPE_FSL_MPIC_20 = 1, > @@ -973,6 +974,15 @@ struct kvm_arch_forwarded_irq { > __u32 gsi; /* gsi, ie. virtual IRQ number */ > }; > > +struct kvm_vfio_dev_irq { > + __u32 argsz; > + __u32 fd; /* file descriptor of the VFIO device */ > + __u32 index; /* VFIO device IRQ index */ > + __u32 start; > + __u32 count; > + __u32 gsi[]; /* gsi, ie. virtual IRQ number */ > +}; > + > /* > * ioctls for VM fds > */ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/