Re: [PATCH 2/9] xen: hook io_apic read/write operations

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Feb 13 2009 - 21:11:33 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> In Xen, writes to the IO APIC are paravirtualized via hypercalls, so
> implement the appropriate operations.
>
> This version of the patch just hooks the io_apic read/write functions
> directly, rather than introducing another layer of indirection. The
> xen_initial_domain() tests compile to 0 if CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 isn't set,
> and are cheap if it is.
>
> (An alternative would be to add io_apic_ops, and point them to the Xen
> implementation as needed. HPA deemed this extra level of indirection to
> be excessive.)

that will be more clean.

>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h | 6 ++++
> arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> arch/x86/xen/Makefile | 3 +-
> arch/x86/xen/apic.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/xen/xen-ops.h | 6 ++++
> 6 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/apic.c
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
> index 59cb4a1..20b543a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
> @@ -183,4 +183,10 @@ static inline void ioapic_init_mappings(void) { }
> static inline void probe_nr_irqs_gsi(void) { }
> #endif
>
> +void xen_io_apic_init(void);
> +unsigned int xen_io_apic_read(unsigned apic, unsigned reg);
> +void xen_io_apic_write(unsigned int apic,
> + unsigned int reg, unsigned int value);
> +
> +
> #endif /* _ASM_X86_IO_APIC_H */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> index 7248ca1..de0368a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
> @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
> #include <asm/uv/uv_hub.h>
> #include <asm/uv/uv_irq.h>
>
> +#include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
> +
> #include <asm/genapic.h>
>
> #define __apicdebuginit(type) static type __init
> @@ -399,14 +401,26 @@ static __attribute_const__ struct io_apic __iomem *io_apic_base(int idx)
>
> static inline unsigned int io_apic_read(unsigned int apic, unsigned int reg)
> {
> - struct io_apic __iomem *io_apic = io_apic_base(apic);
> + struct io_apic __iomem *io_apic;
> +
> + if (xen_initial_domain())
> + return xen_io_apic_read(apic, reg);

you may have _xen_io_apic_read(apic, reg);
and xen_io_apic_read(apic, reg) will call xen_initial_domain internally.
or sth like
extra if (io_apic_ops)
io_apic->read()...

YH
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