On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 02:54:11PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 1 November 2016 at 14:50, Christoffer Dall > <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:26:54AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> Possible current and future outbound interrupt lines (some of these > >> would only show up in some unlikely or lots-of-implementation-needed > >> cases, I'm just trying to produce an exhaustive list): > >> * virtual timer > >> * physical timer > >> * hyp timer (nested virtualization case) > >> * secure timer (unlikely but maybe if EL3 is ever supported inside a VM) > >> * gic maintenance interrupt (nested virt again) > >> * PMU interrupt > > > > Thanks for the list, that's good to have around for the future. > > > > There's also the potential of the EL2 virtual timer for nested VHE > > support, right? > > That's the one I meant by "hyp timer". > there's the hyp timer, and then there's the ARMv8.1 virtual hyp timer. > >> The kernel doesn't know which interrupt number these would be wired > >> up to, so they're all just arbitrary outputs, and you could put them > >> in one field or split them up into multiple fields, it doesn't make > >> much difference. > >> > > > > So if we keep this we're kind of suggesting that we'll have a field per > > device type later on. Since this is a u8 and we are talking about up 5 > > 5 timers already, > > 4. > virtual physical hyp virtual hyp secure Am I missing something? -Christoffer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
