Re: [PATCH v4 03/12] xen/arm: vgic: implement helper functions for virq checks

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Leonid,

On 27/08/2025 19:24, Leonid Komarianskyi wrote:
> Introduced two new helper functions for vGIC: vgic_is_valid_line and
> vgic_is_spi. The functions are similar to the newly introduced
> gic_is_valid_line and gic_is_spi, but they verify whether a vIRQ
> is available for a specific domain, while GIC-specific functions
> validate INTIDs for the real GIC hardware. For example, the GIC may
> support all 992 SPI lines, but the domain may use only some part of them
> (e.g., 640), depending on the highest IRQ number defined in the domain
> configuration. Therefore, for vGIC-related code and checks, the
> appropriate functions should be used. Also, updated the appropriate
> checks to use these new helper functions.
>
> The purpose of introducing new helper functions for vGIC is essentially
> the same as for GIC: to avoid potential confusion with GIC-related
> checks and to consolidate similar code into separate functions, which
> can be more easily extended by additional conditions, e.g., when
> implementing extended SPI interrupts.
>
> Only the validation change in vgic_inject_irq may affect existing
> functionality, as it currently checks whether the vIRQ is less than or
> equal to vgic_num_irqs. Since IRQ indexes start from 0 (where 32 is the
> first SPI), the check should behave consistently with similar logic in
> other places and should check if the vIRQ number is less than
> vgic_num_irqs. The remaining changes, which replace open-coded checks
> with the use of these new helper functions, do not introduce any
> functional changes, as the helper functions follow the current vIRQ
> index verification logic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonid Komarianskyi <leonid_komarianskyi@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

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Julien Grall