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    KVM: PPC: Book3S: Simplify external interrupt handling · d24ea8a7
    Paul Mackerras authored
    Currently we use two bits in the vcpu pending_exceptions bitmap to
    indicate that an external interrupt is pending for the guest, one
    for "one-shot" interrupts that are cleared when delivered, and one
    for interrupts that persist until cleared by an explicit action of
    the OS (e.g. an acknowledge to an interrupt controller).  The
    BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL bit is used for one-shot interrupt requests
    and BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL is used for persisting interrupts.
    
    In practice BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL never gets used, because our
    Book3S platforms generally, and pseries in particular, expect
    external interrupt requests to persist until they are acknowledged
    at the interrupt controller.  That combined with the confusion
    introduced by having two bits for what is essentially the same thing
    makes it attractive to simplify things by only using one bit.  This
    patch does that.
    
    With this patch there is only BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL, and by default
    it has the semantics of a persisting interrupt.  In order to avoid
    breaking the ABI, we introduce a new "external_oneshot" flag which
    preserves the behaviour of the KVM_INTERRUPT ioctl with the
    KVM_INTERRUPT_SET argument.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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