x86/xen: event channels delivery on HVM.

Set the callback to receive evtchns from Xen, using the
callback vector delivery mechanism.

The traditional way for receiving event channel notifications from Xen
is via the interrupts from the platform PCI device.
The callback vector is a newer alternative that allow us to receive
notifications on any vcpu and doesn't need any PCI support: we allocate
a vector exclusively to receive events, in the vector handler we don't
need to interact with the vlapic, therefore we avoid a VMEXIT.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/xen/interface/features.h b/include/xen/interface/features.h
index f51b6413b054..8ab08b91bf6f 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/features.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/features.h
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
 /* x86: Does this Xen host support the MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD hypercall? */
 #define XENFEAT_mmu_pt_update_preserve_ad  5
 
+/* x86: Does this Xen host support the HVM callback vector type? */
+#define XENFEAT_hvm_callback_vector        8
+
 #define XENFEAT_NR_SUBMAPS 1
 
 #endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_FEATURES_H__ */