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    xen: privcmd: Add support for ioeventfd · f0d7db7b
    Viresh Kumar authored
    Virtio guests send VIRTIO_MMIO_QUEUE_NOTIFY notification when they need
    to notify the backend of an update to the status of the virtqueue. The
    backend or another entity, polls the MMIO address for updates to know
    when the notification is sent.
    
    It works well if the backend does this polling by itself. But as we move
    towards generic backend implementations, we end up implementing this in
    a separate user-space program.
    
    Generally, the Virtio backends are implemented to work with the Eventfd
    based mechanism. In order to make such backends work with Xen, another
    software layer needs to do the polling and send an event via eventfd to
    the backend once the notification from guest is received. This results
    in an extra context switch.
    
    This is not a new problem in Linux though. It is present with other
    hypervisors like KVM, etc. as well. The generic solution implemented in
    the kernel for them is to provide an IOCTL call to pass the address to
    poll and eventfd, which lets the kernel take care of polling and raise
    an event on the eventfd, instead of handling this in user space (which
    involves an extra context switch).
    
    This patch adds similar support for xen.
    
    Inspired by existing implementations for KVM, etc..
    
    This also copies ioreq.h header file (only struct ioreq and related
    macros) from Xen's source tree (Top commit 5d84f07fe6bf ("xen/pci: drop
    remaining uses of bool_t")).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b20d83efba6453037d0c099912813c79c81f7714.1697439990.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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