Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on machines with non-contiguous io-apics

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Steven Smith <steven.smith@xxxxxxxxxx> 17.08.09 11:17 >>>
>I have a test box with two IOAPICS which present non-contiguous GSIs
>according to the ACPI tables (the first offers 0-24 and the second
>32-56).  The latest xen-unstable with current pvops dom0 fails to boot
>on this machine, because the dom0 kernel can't claim any GSIs above
>48.  This is because the PHYSDEVOP_alloc_irq_vector implementation
>won't let it get at anything above nr_irqs, which is just the sum of
>the number of registers across all APICs.
>
>The patch below fixes this by just setting nr_irqs to the highest GSI
>offered by any IOAPIC.  I don't understand this stuff well enough to
>say whether that's the right fix (and the patch isn't suitable for
>applying, anyway), but it does make the machine boot.

This seems to mostly be in line with upstream Linux, except that it's lacking
the fallback for when ACPI is disabled. See acpi_probe_gsi() and its use
in 2.6.31-rcX.

Jan


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