Re: [Xen-devel] Regression PCI passthrough from 4.5.5 to 4.6.0-rc1

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 04:18:56PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:14:45AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 21.08.17 at 16:49, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Another option is to (ab)use the msi.gflags field to add another flag
> > > in order to signal Xen whether the interrupt should be unmasked. This
> > > is in line with what you suggest below.
> > 
> > From a brief look it looks like this would be doable, but the way these
> > flags are being communicated is rather ugly (the values used here
> > aren't part of the public interface, and hence it wasn't immediately
> > clear whether using one of the unused bits would be an option, but
> > it looks like it is).
> 
> Yes, it's not pretty... Last used bit is 15, hence bit 16 could be
> used to signal to Xen whether the interrupt should be unmasked after
> binding. I have a half-drafted patch, will finish it now.

Hello,

Andreas, could you please give a try to the attached two patches? One
is for Xen and the other one is for QEMU.

Thanks, Roger.

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