Re: [RFC PATCH v4 20/21] iommu/vt-d: hpet: Reserve an interrupt remampping table entry for watchdog

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, Jacob Pan wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:08:06 +0200 (CEST)
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > Unless this problem is not solved and I doubt it can be solved after
> > talking to IOMMU people and studying manuals,
>
> I agree. modify irte might be done with cmpxchg_double() but the queued
> invalidation interface for IRTE cache flush is shared with DMA and
> requires holding a spinlock for enque descriptors, QI tail update etc.
> 
> Also, reserving & manipulating IRTE slot for hpet via backdoor might not
> be needed if the HPET PCI BDF (found in ACPI) can be utilized. But it
> might need more work to add a fake PCI device for HPET.

What would PCI/BDF solve?

Thanks,

	tglx