Nuno, can you please take a look at this patch?

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 09:57:49PM +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> The initial implementation of PCI/MSI interrupt domains in the hierarchical
> interrupt domain model used a shortcut by providing a global PCI/MSI
> domain.
> 
> This works because the PCI/MSI[X] hardware is standardized and uniform, but
> it violates the basic design principle of hierarchical interrupt domains:
> Each hardware block involved in the interrupt delivery chain should have a
> separate interrupt domain.
> 
> For PCI/MSI[X], the interrupt controller is per PCI device and not a global
> made-up entity.
> 
> Unsurprisingly, the shortcut turned out to have downsides as it does not
> allow dynamic allocation of interrupt vectors after initialization and it
> prevents supporting IMS on PCI. For further details, see:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221111120501.026511...@linutronix.de/
> 
> The solution is implementing per device MSI domains, this means the
> entities which provide global PCI/MSI domain so far have to implement MSI
> parent domain functionality instead.
> 
> This series converts the x86 hyperv driver to implement MSI parent domain.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> 
>   - Drop the merged patch
> 
>   - Rebase onto hyperv-fixes
> 
>  arch/x86/hyperv/irqdomain.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/hv/Kconfig          |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.49.0
> 

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