Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 08/26] ppc/xive: add flags to the XIVE interrupt source

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 14:18 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > Well, at this point I think nothing will set that flag.... It's there
> > for workaround around HW bugs on some chips. At least in full emu it
> > shouldn't happen unless we try to emulate those bugs. Hopefully direct
> > MMIO will just work.
> 
> Hm.  That doesn't seem like a good match for a per-irq state
> structure.

The flag is returned to the guest on a per-IRQ basis, so are the LSI
etc... flags, but at the HW level, indeed, they correspond to
attributes of blocks of interrupts.

It might be easier in qemu to keep that in the per-source flags
though.

Especially when we start having actual HW interrupts under the
hood with KVM. it's easier to keep the state self contained
for each of them.

Ben.