RE: [PATCH 1/1] X86: Handle Hyper-V vmbus interrupts as specialhypervisor interrupts

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 8:11 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86: Handle Hyper-V vmbus interrupts as special
> hypervisor interrupts
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 04:39:37PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h |    2 +
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h    |    4 +++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c     |   39
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S         |    7 ++++++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S         |    5 ++++
> >  5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
> > index 1508e51..c2ff239 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
> > @@ -112,6 +112,8 @@
> >  /* Xen vector callback to receive events in a HVM domain */
> >  #define XEN_HVM_EVTCHN_CALLBACK		0xf3
> >
> > +/* Hyper-V vector callback to receive vmbus interrupts*/
> > +#define HYPER_V_CALLBACK_VECTOR		0xf2
> 
> Btw, could those hypervisor vectors be merged into one VIRT_INTR_VECTOR
> and be shared between the hypervisors? I mean, you can't have a xen and
> hyperv hypervisor running next to each other and fihgting over that
> vector, right?

You are right; we could just have one vector for this. Let me wait for other comments and
input from Xen maintainers before I make this change.

Regards,

K. Y
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