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Re: [RFC XEN PATCH v2 3/3] tools: Add new function to get gsi from irq


  • To: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Chen, Jiqian" <Jiqian.Chen@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:53:30 +0000
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  • Thread-topic: [RFC XEN PATCH v2 3/3] tools: Add new function to get gsi from irq

On 2023/11/28 22:25, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 06:41:36PM +0800, Jiqian Chen wrote:
>> In PVH dom0, it uses the linux local interrupt mechanism,
>> when it allocs irq for a gsi, it is dynamic, and follow
>> the principle of applying first, distributing first. And
>> if you debug the kernel codes, you will find the irq
>> number is alloced from small to large, but the applying
>> gsi number is not, may gsi 38 comes before gsi 28, that
>> causes the irq number is not equal with the gsi number.
>> And when we passthrough a device, QEMU will use its gsi
>> number to do mapping actions, see xen_pt_realize->
>> xc_physdev_map_pirq, but the gsi number is got from file
>> /sys/bus/pci/devices/xxxx:xx:xx.x/irq in current code,
>> so it will fail when mapping.
>> And in current codes, there is no method to translate
>> irq to gsi for userspace.
> 
> I think it would be cleaner to just introduce a new sysfs node that
> contains the gsi if a device is using one (much like the irq sysfs
> node)?
Yes, I also ever thought this way. Add a sysfs node in 
/sys/bus/pci/devices/xxxx:xx:xx.x/gsi.
But I am not sure sysfs or privcmd, which is better.
If use sysfs node, should I need to use the macro of Xen to wrap the codes? And 
is it suitable to create it in function acpi_register_gsi_ioapic?

> 
> Such ioctl to translate from IRQ to GSI has nothing to do with Xen, so
> placing it in privcmd does seem quite strange to me.  I understand
> that for passthrough we need the GSI, but such translation layer from
> IRQ to GSI is all Linux internal, and it would be much simpler to just
> expose the GSI in sysfs IMO.
> 
> Thanks, Roger.

-- 
Best regards,
Jiqian Chen.

 


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