Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] platform-msi: Add platform check for subdevice irq domain

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 08:46:24AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> The pci_subdevice_msi_create_irq_domain() should fail if the underlying
> platform is not able to support IMS (Interrupt Message Storage). Otherwise,
> the isolation of interrupt is not guaranteed.
> 
> For x86, IMS is only supported on bare metal for now. We could enable it
> in the virtualization environments in the future if interrupt HYPERCALL
> domain is supported or the hardware has the capability of interrupt
> isolation for subdevices.

> + * We want to figure out which context we are running in. But the hardware
> + * does not introduce a reliable way (instruction, CPUID leaf, MSR, whatever)
> + * which can be manipulated by the VMM to let the OS figure out where it runs.
> + * So we go with the below probably_on_bare_metal() function as a replacement
> + * for definitely_on_bare_metal() to go forward only for the very simple reason
> + * that this is the only option we have.
> + */
> +static const char * const possible_vmm_vendor_name[] = {
> +	"QEMU", "Bochs", "KVM", "Xen", "VMware", "VMW", "VMware Inc.",
> +	"innotek GmbH", "Oracle Corporation", "Parallels", "BHYVE",
> +	"Microsoft Corporation"
> +};
> +
> +static bool probably_on_bare_metal(void)

What is the point of a function called probably_on_bare_metal()?
*Probably*?  The caller can't really do anything with the fact that
we're not 100% sure this gives the correct answer.  Just call it
"on_bare_metal()" or something and accept the fact that it might be
wrong sometimes.

This patch goes with IMS support, which somebody else is handling, so
I assume you don't need anything from the PCI side.