kvm: Decouple 'irqfds usable' from 'kernel irqchip'

Instead of assuming that we can use irqfds if and only if
kvm_irqchip_in_kernel(), add a bool to the KVMState which
indicates this, and is set only on x86 and only if the
irqchip is in the kernel.

The kernel documentation implies that the only thing
you need to use KVM_IRQFD is that KVM_CAP_IRQFD is
advertised, but this seems to be untrue. In particular
the kernel does not (alas) return a sensible error if you
try to set up an irqfd when you haven't created an irqchip.
If it did we could remove all this nonsense and let the
kernel return the error code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kvm.h b/kvm.h
index 47bf5ba..21436ef 100644
--- a/kvm.h
+++ b/kvm.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 extern int kvm_allowed;
 extern bool kvm_kernel_irqchip;
 extern bool kvm_async_interrupts_allowed;
+extern bool kvm_irqfds_allowed;
 
 #if defined CONFIG_KVM || !defined NEED_CPU_H
 #define kvm_enabled()           (kvm_allowed)
@@ -40,10 +41,20 @@ extern bool kvm_async_interrupts_allowed;
  */
 #define kvm_async_interrupts_enabled() (kvm_async_interrupts_allowed)
 
+/**
+ * kvm_irqfds_enabled:
+ *
+ * Returns: true if we can use irqfds to inject interrupts into
+ * a KVM CPU (ie the kernel supports irqfds and we are running
+ * with a configuration where it is meaningful to use them).
+ */
+#define kvm_irqfds_enabled() (kvm_irqfds_allowed)
+
 #else
 #define kvm_enabled()           (0)
 #define kvm_irqchip_in_kernel() (false)
 #define kvm_async_interrupts_enabled() (false)
+#define kvm_irqfds_enabled() (false)
 #endif
 
 struct kvm_run;