Demi Marie Obenour d609410b8b pci: Support injecting interrupts from externally-provided irqfds ...

The virtio vhost-user device backend prefers to use externally-provided
eventfds as irqfds.  This allows the frontend VM to notify the backend
VM directly, without the need for a userspace proxy process.  Since the
frontend can provide irqfds at any time, the backend needs to register
and unregister irqfds dynamically.

This is tricky because the functions that access the irqfd table all
take `&self`, not `&mut self`.  The obvious solution to this problem is
to wrap the table in a mutex.  Most of these functions are not called on
hot paths, but `.notifier()` is called whenever Cloud Hypervisor needs
to inject an interrupt into a guest.  Most devices don't need to
register irqfds at runtime, and for them, slowing down interrupt
injection would be wasteful.

Instead, require devices to opt-in to irqfd registration.  The irqfd
table now comes in two forms: one that contains a mutex and one that
does not.  The one containing a mutex can be mutated freely, while
attempting to mutate the one that does not will panic.

Right now, no code registeres irqfds at runtime, but this will change in
subsequent commits.

Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>

2026-03-18 09:25:27 +00:00

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src

pci: Support injecting interrupts from externally-provided irqfds

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Cargo.toml

misc: make MSRV workspace-wide for cloud-hypervisor dependencies

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