[powerpc/nmi: RFC 2/2] Keep interrupts enabled even on soft disable

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Dec 14 02:22:35 AEDT 2016


On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 14:28 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > Also note that there's already a PACA field to "recover" an
> > interrupt
> > snatched by KVM, though it's XICS specific, while your approach is
> > more
> > generic, you may want to merge the two. Talk to Paulus.
> > 
> 
> That is specific to KVM for kvm_interrupt_hv and kvm has a referecne
> to the xics as well and within it, saved_xirr is tracked

yes but it does exactly the same thing as what you are adding some one
of them should probably go.

Cheers,
Ben.



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