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SubjectRe: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree
On 03/07/2007 12:57 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:11 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Dan Hecht wrote:
>>> Jeremy, I saw you sent out the Xen version earlier, thanks. Here's
>>> ours for reference (please excuse any formating issues); it's also
>>> lean. We'll send out a proper patch later after some more testing:
>> So the interrupt side of the clockevent comes through the virtual apic?
>> Where does evt->handle_event get called?
>
>
>> /* We use normal irq0 handler on cpu0. */
>> time_init_hook();
>
> That's exactly the thing I ranted about before. We keep the historic
> view of emulated hardware and just wrap it into enough glue code instead
> of doing an abstract design, which just gets rid of those hardware
> assumptions at all. That's the big advantage of paravirtualization, but
> the current way on paravirt ops is just ignoring this.
>

Are you saying you would prefer we create our own irq handler something
like this rather than using the standard i386 handlers?

irqreturn_t vmi_timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
local_event->event_handler(local_event);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}

?? That's fine with me.
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