Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Losing PS/2 Interrupts

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > The main issue is that if pirq_eoi_map is enabled PHYSDEVOP_eoi
> > automatically unmask the event channel.
> > There isn't even a way to specify if we want the unmask to be done or
> > not, it just does it.
> 
> I can't think of situations where this would be a problem. It certainly
> never has been in our kernels.

The situation is simple: we want an event channel to stay masked
(because for example the corresponding irq has been disabled) but at the
same time we need to eoi the pirq.
AFACT it is not possible to do this with pirq_eoi_map.
An event channel might be masked for a number of reasons, it is wrong to
assume that an eoi should enable it again.

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