Re: [PATCH 4/7] acpi: use indirect call to register gsi in differentmodes

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 06:41:10 EST


On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > On 10/06/2010 10:00 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > Peter,
> > > I sent this patch a while back as part of the "PV on HVM: receive
> > > interrupts as xen events" series (that it is based upon Konrad's
> > > pcifront series, he sent another version to the list yesterday).
> > >
> > > Do you think that this is a reasonble approach?
> > >
> > > If you want to give a look at the whole series you can find it here:
> > >
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/170
> > >
> > > everything else is Xen specific stuff.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> >
> > On the surface it seems reasonable.
> >
> > Thomas Gleixner has been working on greatly revamping a bunch of the x86
> > interrupt code, and this might interact with his stuff, so it would be
> > good if he could comment on it.
> >
> > [tglx: what they're apparently working on is to redirect APIC interrupts
> > to Xen event channels so they don't have to interact with the simulated
> > memory-mapped APIC. It's "paravirtualization light".]
>
> I'm not touching acpi code. So that should be ok.

In that case would be OK for me to add an acked-by H. Peter Anvin to
this patch?

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