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irqfd is a mechanism to inject a specific interrupt to a User VM using a
decoupled eventfd mechanism.

Vhost is a kernel-level virtio server which uses eventfd for interrupt
injection. To support vhost on ACRN, irqfd is introduced in HSM.

HSM provides ioctls to associate a virtual Message Signaled Interrupt
(MSI) with an eventfd. The corresponding virtual MSI will be injected
into a User VM once the eventfd got signal.

Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yu Wang <yu1.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210207031040.49576-17-shuo.a.liu@intel.com

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>