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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add MSI support to xen environment


  • To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:54:54 +0800
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:58:34 -0700
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add MSI support to xen environment

Jan Beulich <mailto:jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As you are intending this not only for dom0, but also for domU - what
are
> the implications of a domU (intentionally or accidentally)
> programming the
> address and/or data values to something other than the intended
values?

Thanks for your review. For MSI config space, domU will access them
through PCI backend, and PCI backend will block all write unless stated
clearly by one config entry.
For MSI-X , yes, we need block all access to the MMIO range through mmio
rangeset. I will add that logic to control panel.

-- Yunhong Jiang

> 
> Jan
> 
>>>> "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> 25.10.07 18:46 >>>
> Hi,
> The followed series patches add MSI support to xen environment. Please
> have a look on it and give me any suggestion and I'd like to update
> accordingly. 
> 
> The basic idea including:
> 1) Keep vector global resource owned by xen, while split pirq into per
> domain information. 2) domain0 kernel will operate msi resource for
> domain0/domU, 
> while QEMU
> will operate MSI resource for HVM domain.
> 3) Xen will do EOI for MSI interrupt.
> 
> pirq_per_domain.patch is mainly changes to xen source tree for
per-domain
> pirq. domain_pirq_kernel.patch is changes to linux tree for per-domain
pirq.
> 
> msi_irq_xen.patch changes xen to support msi for domain0/domainU.
> msi_kernel.patch changes linux tree to support msi.
> 
> msi_passthrough.patch add msi support to passthrough hvm domain.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks
> Yunhong Jiang
> 
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