Re: [PATCH for-4.14 v2 2/2] x86/passthrough: introduce a flag for GSIs not requiring an EOI or unmask

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/2020 15:29, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> There's no need to setup a timer for GSIs that are edge triggered,
> since those don't require any EIO or unmask, and hence couldn't block
> other interrupts.
>
> Note this is only used by PVH dom0, that can setup the passthrough of
> edge triggered interrupts from the vIO-APIC. One example of such kind
> of interrupt that can be used by a PVH dom0 would be the RTC timer.
>
> While there introduce an out label to do the unlock and reduce code
> duplication.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>