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authorStewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-07-06 19:28:27 +1000
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doc/OPAL_INT_EOI: document positive return value
From benh suggestion in id:1467792521.13965.118.camel@kernel.crashing.org Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Not yet implemented.
Modelled on the H_EOI PAPR call.
+This can return a positive value, which means more interrupts
+are queued for that CPU/priority and must be fetched as the XIVE is not
+guaranteed to assert the CPU external interrupt line again until the
+pending queue for the current priority has been emptied.
+
For P9 and above systems where host doesn't know about interrupt controller.
An OS can instead make OPAL calls for XICS emulation.