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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>2007-07-17 21:37:05 -0400
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-07-18 11:47:42 -0400
commite46cdb66c8fc1c8d61cfae0f219ff47ac4b9d531 (patch)
tree7d9cdfef91e69fcfcba762a5a70cd58900308a5b /include/xen/events.h
parent3b827c1b3aadf3adb4c602d19863f2d24e7cbc18 (diff)
xen: event channels
Xen implements interrupts in terms of event channels. Each guest domain gets 1024 event channels which can be used for a variety of purposes, such as Xen timer events, inter-domain events, inter-processor events (IPI) or for real hardware IRQs. Within the kernel, we map the event channels to IRQs, and implement the whole interrupt handling using a Xen irq_chip. Rather than setting NR_IRQ to 1024 under PARAVIRT in order to accomodate Xen, we create a dynamic mapping between event channels and IRQs. Ideally, Linux will eventually move towards dynamically allocating per-irq structures, and we can use a 1:1 mapping between event channels and irqs. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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1#ifndef _XEN_EVENTS_H
2#define _XEN_EVENTS_H
3
4#include <linux/irq.h>
5
6int bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler(unsigned int evtchn,
7 irqreturn_t (*handler)(int, void *),
8 unsigned long irqflags, const char *devname,
9 void *dev_id);
10int bind_virq_to_irqhandler(unsigned int virq, unsigned int cpu,
11 irqreturn_t (*handler)(int, void *),
12 unsigned long irqflags, const char *devname, void *dev_id);
13
14/*
15 * Common unbind function for all event sources. Takes IRQ to unbind from.
16 * Automatically closes the underlying event channel (even for bindings
17 * made with bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler()).
18 */
19void unbind_from_irqhandler(unsigned int irq, void *dev_id);
20
21static inline void notify_remote_via_evtchn(int port)
22{
23 struct evtchn_send send = { .port = port };
24 (void)HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op(EVTCHNOP_send, &send);
25}
26
27extern void notify_remote_via_irq(int irq);
28#endif /* _XEN_EVENTS_H */