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Subject:Re: [Xen-devel] Re: APIC rework
From:Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (konr@oracle.com)
Date:Nov 18, 2009 6:14:59 am
List:com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:46:19PM +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote:

On 11/16/09 19:45, Keir Fraser wrote:

It's kind of a shame to need this though. Is there no way for the hypervisor to work out automatically whether an older dom0 is running? Or work out the trigger/level stuff for itself (after all it parses the relevant bios tables just like dom0)?

If Xen can set the interrupt triggering by itself, why would it ever need dom0 to do it? Couldn't it just preconfigure all the pins, and then wait for dom0 to provide/request the pirq<->evtchn mapping?

After reviewing the logic, I think we can use DOMID_SELF to identify new dom0.
In linux-2.6.18 dom0, only qemu uses this hypercall for device assginment, so
map->domid shouldn't be dom0. If old dom0/qemu with this hypercall, keeps the
logic unchanged, and only change the logic for new dom0 when call into it.
Attached the patch.

What about privileged domains that are not domain 0? Won't that mess this up?