[Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND] Merge vpsr.i with evtchn_upcall_mask tosolve one trickish bug

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Per agreement on the summit, xen/ia64 will move to event channel
model same as xen/x86, under which event is the layer under pirq
(external interrupt), virq, and ipi with the latter three bound
to event ports. Within that model, no external interrupt will be
injected directly and evtchn_upcall_mask is the flag to  control
whether events are deliverable.

So xenlinux needs to operate evtchn_upcall_mask at all places 
where it originally operates vpsr.i. However these two flags are
presented at different shared area, and thus xenlinux can't ensure
atomical update on two flags which leaves severe stability issues.
One severe bug comes for this reason where some hypercall may be
restarted infinitely when events pending.

Actually based on description of future model, events become the
superset of external interrupts and thus evtchn_upcall_mask super-
set of vpsr.i (interrupt_delivery_enable). We can merge two flags
into one by removing the latter. By this way, we ensure correctness
and most importantly conform to common code which always assumes
upon evtchn_upcall_mask. 

Signed-off-by Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>

(Thanks for Isaku's comments)

- Kevin

Attachment: merge_i_msk.patch
Description: merge_i_msk.patch

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