On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:32:10PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 06/26/2017 05:03 PM, Andrew Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 01:20:50PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > On 14 November 2016 at 14:32, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > When running with KVM enabled, you can choose between emulating the > > > > gic in kernel or user space. If the kernel supports in-kernel virtualization > > > > of the interrupt controller, it will default to that. If not, if will > > > > default to user space emulation. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately when running in user mode gic emulation, we miss out on > > > > timer events which are only available from kernel space. This patch leverages > > > > the new kernel/user space pending line synchronization for those timer events. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I probably missed a refresh of this patch, but as I didn't see anything, > > I picked this one up today in order to test the KVM support recently > > merged. Tweaking this patch a bit to fit the new ABI allowed me to > > instantiate a KVM guest without the in-kernel irqchip (tested on a > > mustang). So, FWIW, this is report of a successful test. Is there a > > refreshed version of this patch someone can point me to, which I should > > test instead? > > Sorry, this did fall the cracks way too many times now. I've sent a respin > that hopefully is slightly more future proof than this RFC :) > > If your tests passed with this patch, please extend them to also cover SMP > support, as that was broken with this RFC. Indeed. I retested with the old version and now see that secondaries were not booting, but they are with the new version. Thanks, drew
