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    xen/pciback: xen pci backend driver. · 30edc14b
    Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk authored
    This is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in
    drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
    frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs.
    
    The PV protocol is rather simple. There is page shared with the guest,
    which has the 'struct xen_pci_sharedinfo' embossed in it. The backend
    has a thread that is kicked every-time the structure is changed and
    based on the operation field it performs specific tasks:
    
     XEN_PCI_OP_conf_[read|write]:
       Read/Write 0xCF8/0xCFC filtered data. (conf_space*.c)
       Based on which field is probed, we either enable/disable the PCI
       device, change power state, read VPD, etc. The major goal of this
       call is to provide a Physical IRQ (PIRQ) to the guest.
    
       The PIRQ is Xen hypervisor global IRQ value irrespective of the IRQ
       is tied in to the IO-APIC, or is a vector. For GSI type
       interrupts, the PIRQ==GSI holds. For MSI/MSI-X the
       PIRQ value != Linux IRQ number (thought PIRQ==vector).
    
       Please note, that with Xen, all interrupts (except those level shared ones)
       are injected directly to the guest - there is no host interaction.
    
     XEN_PCI_OP_[enable|disable]_msi[|x] (pciback_ops.c)
       Enables/disables the MSI/MSI-X capability of the device. These operations
       setup the MSI/MSI-X vectors for the guest and pass them to the frontend.
    
       When the device is activated, the interrupts are directly injected in the
       guest without involving the host.
    
     XEN_PCI_OP_aer_[detected|resume|mmio|slotreset]: In case of failure,
      perform the appropriate AER commands on the guest. Right now that is
      a cop-out - we just kill the guest.
    
    Besides implementing those commands, it can also
    
     - hide a PCI device from the host. When booting up, the user can specify
       xen-pciback.hide=(1:0:0)(BDF..) so that host does not try to use the
       device.
    
    The driver was lifted from linux-2.6.18.hg tree and fixed up
    so that it could compile under v3.0. Per suggestion from Jesse Barnes
    moved the driver to drivers/xen/xen-pciback.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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