Re: [PATCH] xen: do not map the same GSI twice

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > PV on HVM guests map GSIs into event channels; at restore time the
> > event channels are resumed by restore_pirqs.
> > Device drivers might try to register the same GSI again through ACPI at
> > restore time, but the GSI has already been mapped and bound by
> > restore_pirqs.
> 
> Which means... what kind of error do we get without this patch?

Xen would print:

(XEN) irq.c:2235: dom4: pirq 23 or emuirq 28 already mapped

and waste a pirq
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