Re: [RFC v2 13/17] x86/apic: Handle EOI writes for SAVIC guests
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Mar 27 2025 - 06:50:34 EST
On Fri, Mar 21 2025 at 10:11, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>> Congrats. You managed to re-implement find_last_bit() in the most
>> incomprehesible way.
>
> Heh, having burned myself quite badly by trying to use find_last_bit() to get
> pending/in-service IRQs in KVM code...
>
> Using find_last_bit() doesn't work because the ISR chunks aren't contiguous,
> they're 4-byte registers at 16-byte strides.
Which is obvious to solve with trivial integer math:
bit = vector + 32 * (vector / 32);
ergo
vector = bit - 16 * (bit / 32);
No?
> That said, copy+pasting the aforementioned KVM code is absurd. Please extract
> KVM's find_highest_vector() to common code.
No. Reimplement this with find_last_bit() and the trivial adjustment
above and remove find_highest_vector() as there is no point to
proliferate a bad reimplementation of find_last_bit().
Thanks,
tglx