Re: [PATCH 0/3] Support userspace irqchip with arch timers

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Alex,

On 30/09/16 20:31, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30.09.16 17:43, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 05:38:11PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 30.09.16 16:54, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 27.09.16 21:08, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>
>>>>> Marc and I have been looking at this during Linaro connect and have
>>>>> slightly reworked your patch into this small series.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be good if you could have a look at it and test it out.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tested it with your QEMU, and it works for UP, but secondary CPUs
>>>>> fail to come up, and it looks like the kernel never gets an IPI for
>>>>> those CPUs from userspace.  Any chance you're willing to take a look at
>>>>> that?
>>>>
>>>> I still need to see whether I can come up with a prettier solution, but
>>>> for now this works:
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
>>>
>>> Eh, no, not in i386 code :). But the problem seems to be a missing
>>> mpstate sync.
>>>
>> Yeah, that looked really dodgy.  Have you tested it? :)
> 
> This time around tested with the correct command line parameters I hope
> :). I'll send a pretty patch later.
> 
> diff --git a/target-arm/kvm.c b/target-arm/kvm.c
> index b4c8fe2..b549f00 100644
> --- a/target-arm/kvm.c
> +++ b/target-arm/kvm.c
> @@ -173,6 +173,12 @@ int kvm_arch_init(MachineState *ms, KVMState *s)
>       */
>      kvm_async_interrupts_allowed = true;
> 
> +    /*
> +     * PSCI wakes up secondary cores, so we always need to
> +     * have vCPUs waiting in kernel space
> +     */
> +    kvm_halt_in_kernel_allowed = true;
> +
>      cap_has_mp_state = kvm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_MP_STATE);
> 
>      type_register_static(&host_arm_cpu_type_info);

What the status of userspace for this thing? Are QEMU patches being
posted and reviewed?

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
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