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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.6 0/5] xen: arm: Parse PCI DT nodes' ranges and interrupt-map




On 19/02/15 1:44 pm, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 18.02.15 at 21:13, <suravee.suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/18/2015 6:48 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
Wouldn't it be possible to route the SPI dynamically when the domain
decide to use the MSI n? We would need to implement PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq
for MSI.
Enabling MSI is done by each end-point PCI device drivers in the guest.
In Linux, this would mean that when the driver tries to allocate an MSI
interrupt, it would need to communicate back to Xen (possibly via
hypercall as you pointed out) to get the next available SPI. It is not
necessary for now. I am planning to revisit this when we try to
implement pass-through support. Lemme know if you think this should be
handled differently.
I think guest MSI setup should work at least similarly (if identically
is not possible) to x86, i.e. via the vpci interface.
For cavium thunder pci passthrough, we have avoided that. Guest driver directly traps into hypervisor. No front end backend communication for MSI setup. The front-back communication is limited to reading PCI configuration space.
Jan


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