Re: [PATCH] xen: do not map the same GSI twice

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon May 21 2012 - 13:58:37 EST


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:47:44PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > PV on HVM guests map GSIs into event channels; at restore time the
> > > event channels are resumed by restore_pirqs.
> > > Device drivers might try to register the same GSI again through ACPI at
> > > restore time, but the GSI has already been mapped and bound by
> > > restore_pirqs.
> >
> > Which means... what kind of error do we get without this patch?
>
> Xen would print:
>
> (XEN) irq.c:2235: dom4: pirq 23 or emuirq 28 already mapped
>
> and waste a pirq

OK. This sounds like it has been a bug since ..oh forever then?
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