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Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller

From:  "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
To:  
Subject:  [PATCH 0/2] Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller
Date:  Fri, 9 Oct 2015 16:39:46 +0300
Message-ID:  <1444397988-20167-1-git-send-email-den@openvz.org>
Cc:  Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, rkagan@virtuozzo.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@virtuozzo.com>, "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
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This patchset implements the KVM part of the synthetic interrupt
controller (synic) which is a building block of the Hyper-V
paravirtualized device bus (vmbus).

Synic is a lapic extension, which is controlled via MSRs and maintains
for each vCPU
 - 16 synthetic interrupt "lines" (SINT's); each can be configured to
   trigger a specific interrupt vector optionally with auto-EOI
   semantics
 - a message page in the guest memory with 16 256-byte per-SINT message
   slots
 - an event flag page in the guest memory with 16 2048-bit per-SINT
   event flag areas

The host triggers a SINT whenever it delivers a new message to the
corresponding slot or flips an event flag bit in the corresponding area.
The guest informs the host that it can try delivering a message by
explicitly asserting EOI in lapic or writing to End-Of-Message (EOM)
MSR.

The userspace (qemu) triggers interrupts and receives EOM notifications
via irqfd with resampler; for that, a GSI is allocated for each
configured SINT, and irq_routing api is extended to support GSI-SINT
mapping.

Besides, a new vcpu exit is introduced to notify the userspace of the
changes in synic configuraion triggered by guest writing to the
corresponding MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin <asmetanin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


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