Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] VMX: Make sure PI is in proper state before install the hooks

["Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@suse.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 9:45 PM
> To: Wu, Feng <feng.wu@intel.com>
> Cc: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com; dario.faggioli@citrix.com;
> george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com; Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian@intel.com>; xen-
> devel@lists.xen.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] VMX: Make sure PI is in proper state before install
> the hooks
> 
> >>> On 11.10.16 at 02:57, <feng.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> >  static void pi_desc_init(struct vcpu *v)
> >  {
> > -    uint32_t dest;
> > -
> >      v->arch.hvm_vmx.pi_desc.nv = posted_intr_vector;
> >
> > -    dest = cpu_physical_id(v->processor);
> > -
> > -    if ( x2apic_enabled )
> > -        v->arch.hvm_vmx.pi_desc.ndst = dest;
> > -    else
> > -        v->arch.hvm_vmx.pi_desc.ndst = MASK_INSR(dest,
> PI_xAPIC_NDST_MASK);
> > +    /*
> > +     * Mark NDST as invalid, then we can use this invalid value as a
> > +     * marker to whether update NDST or not in vmx_pi_hooks_assign().
> > +     */
> > +    v->arch.hvm_vmx.pi_desc.ndst = 0xffffffff;
> 
> I think I had at the same time asked to make this a #define, so the
> two (currently) instance can be connected together.

Sorry, Maybe I didn't get that. Do you mean I need to define a Macro
for 0xffffffff, so we can use it here and in vmx.c?

Thanks,
Feng

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