Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen+tools: Report Interrupt Controller Virtualization capabilities on x86

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 04:01:32PM +0000, Jane Malalane wrote:
> Add XEN_SYSCTL_PHYSCAP_ARCH_ASSISTED_xapic and
> XEN_SYSCTL_PHYSCAP_ARCH_ASSISTED_x2apic to report accelerated xapic
> and x2apic, on x86 hardware.
> No such features are currently implemented on AMD hardware.
> 
> For that purpose, also add an arch-specific "capabilities" parameter
> to struct xen_sysctl_physinfo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jane Malalane <jane.malalane@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/golang/xenlight/helpers.gen.go |  4 ++++
>  tools/golang/xenlight/types.gen.go   |  6 ++++++

Note for committers: Please regenerate the go bindings, there are
out-of-sync with libxl_types.idl at the moment.

> diff --git a/tools/libs/light/libxl_x86.c b/tools/libs/light/libxl_x86.c
> index 1feadebb18..33da51fe89 100644
> --- a/tools/libs/light/libxl_x86.c
> +++ b/tools/libs/light/libxl_x86.c
> @@ -866,6 +866,17 @@ int libxl__arch_passthrough_mode_setdefault(libxl__gc 
> *gc,
>      return rc;
>  }
>  
> +void libxl__arch_get_physinfo(libxl_physinfo *physinfo,
> +                              xc_physinfo_t xcphysinfo)

It might be better to pass "xcphysinfo" as a pointer, otherwise I think
a copy of the whole struct is made when calling this function.


In any case, the tool part of the patch looks good:
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

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Anthony PERARD