Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] IOAPIC: clear remote IRR for edge interrupts

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/05/2016 12:21, Peter Xu wrote:
> These two patches are seperated from v6 series of Intel IOMMU IR
> support.
> 
> Existing read-only bits of IOAPIC registers are writable. We'd
> better follow the spec to make it read-only. The first patch did
> this.
> 
> The 2nd patch emulated real IOAPIC behavior that remote IRR bits are
> cleared when configuring edge-triggered interrupts. This "feature"
> is used by Linux kernel to do explicit EOI for 0x1X IOAPICs. For
> more information, please refer to the comments in patch 2. This one
> depends on patch 1 to work.
> 
> Peter Xu (2):
>   ioapic: keep RO bits for IOAPIC entry
>   ioapic: clear remote irr bit for edge-triggered interrupts
> 
>  hw/intc/ioapic.c                  | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/hw/i386/ioapic_internal.h |  5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> 

Queued for 2.7, thanks.

Paolo