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Commit 721eecbf authored by Gregory Haskins's avatar Gregory Haskins Committed by Avi Kivity
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KVM: irqfd



KVM provides a complete virtual system environment for guests, including
support for injecting interrupts modeled after the real exception/interrupt
facilities present on the native platform (such as the IDT on x86).
Virtual interrupts can come from a variety of sources (emulated devices,
pass-through devices, etc) but all must be injected to the guest via
the KVM infrastructure.  This patch adds a new mechanism to inject a specific
interrupt to a guest using a decoupled eventfd mechnanism:  Any legal signal
on the irqfd (using eventfd semantics from either userspace or kernel) will
translate into an injected interrupt in the guest at the next available
interrupt window.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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