Re: [v3 21/26] x86, irq: Define a global vector for VT-d Posted-Interrupts

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jan 30 2015 - 13:20:18 EST


On 12/12/2014 07:14 AM, Feng Wu wrote:
> Currently, we use a global vector as the Posted-Interrupts
> Notification Event for all the vCPUs in the system. We need
> to introduce another global vector for VT-d Posted-Interrtups,
> which will be used to wakeup the sleep vCPU when an external
> interrupt from a direct-assigned device happens for that vCPU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>

> #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM
> +void (*wakeup_handler_callback)(void) = NULL;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wakeup_handler_callback);
> +

Stylistic nitpick: we generally don't explicitly initialize
global/static pointer variables to NULL (that happens automatically anyway.)

Other than that,

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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