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Re: [Xen-devel] x86: clear_IO_APIC_pin() and SMI delivery mode

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] x86: clear_IO_APIC_pin() and SMI delivery mode
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:55:57 +0000
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>>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 06.02.08 14:21 >>>
>On 6/2/08 13:00, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> b) Ignore the vector information in ioapic_guest_write() for all
>> delivery modes (at least in old_rte, new_rte is currently not allowed
>> to have anything but fixed or lowest priority) that don't allow a
>> vector.
>
>That's what we've done since Xen 3.1.1. See xen-unstable c/s 15270 (15184 in
>3.1-testing).

Hmm, I admit I again failed to look at the -unstable code, but isn't the
WARN_BOGUS_WRITE() itself a little bogus, especially if the entry is
masked?

Jan


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