Re: [patch V2 00/46] x86, PCI, XEN, genirq ...: Prepare for device MSI

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Fri Aug 28 2020 - 07:43:14 EST


On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 01:16:28PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This is the second version of providing a base to support device MSI (non
> PCI based) and on top of that support for IMS (Interrupt Message Storm)
> based devices in a halfways architecture independent way.
>
> The first version can be found here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821002424.119492231@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> It's still a mixed bag of bug fixes, cleanups and general improvements
> which are worthwhile independent of device MSI.
>
> There are quite a bunch of issues to solve:
>
> - X86 does not use the device::msi_domain pointer for historical reasons
> and due to XEN, which makes it impossible to create an architecture
> agnostic device MSI infrastructure.
>
> - X86 has it's own msi_alloc_info data type which is pointlessly
> different from the generic version and does not allow to share code.
>
> - The logic of composing MSI messages in an hierarchy is busted at the
> core level and of course some (x86) drivers depend on that.
>
> - A few minor shortcomings as usual
>
> This series addresses that in several steps:

For all IOMMU changes:

Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>