[Linuxppc-users] XICS Interrupts

[Bill Buros]

Additional answers from Frank..


On 6/16/17 7:52 AM, Bill Buros wrote:
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> When I run a customer‘s application on an S822lc(8335-GCA) system with 
> Ubuntu OS BareMetal, there are many XICS interrupts in /proc/interrupts.
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> Does anyone know the conditions to trigger the interrupt. What is XICS?
XICS is the interrupt controller on Power8 systems..
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> I saw some text that said it was related to KVM, but I do not use 
> virtualization at all.
and yes, as such there's a device model for it in qemu as well.
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> XICS interrupt controller
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