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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 14/16] xen/arm: Add virtual GICv3 support



On 06/02/2014 05:15 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 17:10 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c b/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c
>>> index 3fa0857..787c547 100644
>>> --- a/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c
>>> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c
>>> @@ -264,10 +264,19 @@ int domain_vgic_init(struct domain *d)
>>>      else
>>>          d->arch.vgic.nr_lines = 0; /* We don't need SPIs for the guest */
>>>  
>>> -    if ( gic_hw_version() == GIC_V2 )
>>> +    switch ( gic_hw_version() )
>>> +    {
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_64
>>> +    case GIC_V3:
>>> +        vgic_v3_init(d);
>>> +        break;
>>> +#endif
>>> +    case GIC_V2:
>>>          vgic_v2_init(d);
>>> -    else
>>> +        break;
>>> +    default:
>>>          panic("No VGIC found\n");
>>
>> I think I've already said in an earlier patch. Please avoid to use panic
>> when this function is called by a VM.
> 
> Whether called from a guest or not, gic_hw_version's result is, I think,
> completely under hypervisor control, if it returns a gic version which
> we don't support then that is worthy of a panic() I think, or a
> BUG_ON(), since that is a hypervisor coding issue.

It won't be under hypervisor control if we add an hypercall to choose
whether we want to use GICv2 or GICv3.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall

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