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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wu, Feng
> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 10:20 AM
> To: Paolo Bonzini; Eric Auger; eric.auger@st.com;
> linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu;
> kvm@vger.kernel.org; christoffer.dall@linaro.org; marc.zyngier@arm.com;
> alex.williamson@redhat.com; avi.kivity@gmail.com; mtosatti@redhat.com;
> joro@8bytes.org; b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; patches@linaro.org; Wu, Feng
> Subject: RE: [RFC 12/17] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:pbonzini@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 9:41 PM
> > To: Eric Auger; eric.auger@st.com; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org;
> > kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu; kvm@vger.kernel.org;
> > christoffer.dall@linaro.org; marc.zyngier@arm.com;
> > alex.williamson@redhat.com; avi.kivity@gmail.com; mtosatti@redhat.com;
> > Wu, Feng; joro@8bytes.org; b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; patches@linaro.org
> > Subject: Re: [RFC 12/17] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding
> > control
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> >
> >
> > On 02/07/2015 15:17, Eric Auger wrote:
> > > - new fields are added on producer side: linux irq, vfio_device handle,
> > > active which reflects whether the source is active (at interrupt
> > > controller level or at VFIO level - automasked -) and finally an
> > > opaque pointer which will be used to point to the vfio_platform_device
> > > in this series.
> >
> > Linux IRQ and active should be okay. As to the vfio_device handle, you
> > should link it from the vfio_platform_device instead. And for the
> > vfio_platform_device, you can link it from the vfio_platform_irq instead.
> >
> > Once you've done this, embed the irq_bypass_producer struct in the
> > vfio_platform_irq struct; in the new kvm_arch_* functions, go back to
> > the vfio_platform_irq struct via container_of. From there you can
> > retrieve pointers to the vfio_platform_device and the vfio_device.
> >
> > > - new fields on consumer side: the kvm handle, the gsi
> >
> > You do not need to add these. Instead, add the kvm handle to irqfd
> > only. Like above, embed the irq_bypass_consumer struct in the irqfd
> > struct; in the new kvm_arch_* functions, go back to the
> > vfio_platform_irq struct via container_of.
> >
>
> I also need the gsi field here, for posted-interrupts, I need 'gsi', 'irq' to
> update the IRTE.

Oh... we can get gsi from irq_bypass_consumer -> _irqfd -> gsi, so it
is not needed in irq_bypass_consumer. Got it! :)

Thanks,
Feng

>
> Thanks,
> Feng
>
>
> > Paolo


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