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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Fixes, non-PCI-2.3 support, EOI enhancements
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I've applied all your patches. Thanks!

On Saturday, October 30, 2010 09:58:55 am Alex Williamson wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I've updated some patches I've been working on to v5 and wanted to
> see what you think. I also found a couple minor bugs, fixed in this
> series.
>
> The main idea is that since the VFIO interface defines that the INTx
> interrupt is disabled when it fires, we should provide an interface
> to re-enable it. We currently have to do a read-modify-write to PCI
> config space, requring two ioctls. I introduce an ioctl to do this
> for us. An important aspect of this is that now we can support
> non-PCI-2.3 devices since re-enabling the interrupt is abstracted
> (with the same caveat as current KVM device assignment, that they
> must get an exclusive interrupt). The real trick though is that we
> can then also create an irqfd-like mechanism to trigger re-enabling
> interrupts from and eventfd. This allows qemu to do all the setup
> for connecting interrupts from VFIO into KVM and EOIs from KVM to
> VFIO, then lets userspace get completely out of the way.
>
> Hope you like it. Thanks,
>
> Alex
> ---
>
> Alex Williamson (5):
> vfio: Add a new ioctl to support EOI via eventfd
> vfio: Add support for non-PCI 2.3 compliant devices
> vfio: Add ioctl to re-enable interrupts
> vfio: Fix requested regions
> vfio: Fix the ROM mask
>
>
> drivers/vfio/vfio_intrs.c | 254
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c |
> 37 +++++-
> drivers/vfio/vfio_pci_config.c | 2
> drivers/vfio/vfio_rdwr.c | 4 -
> include/linux/vfio.h | 14 ++
> 5 files changed, 279 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)


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