Re: [PATCH v3] ARM: KVM: Enable in-kernel timers with user space gic

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On 27 June 2017 at 16:35, 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
> interrupt events which are only available from kernel space, such as the timer.
> This patch leverages the new kernel/user space pending line synchronization for
> timer events. It does not handle PMU events yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>



Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.

-- PMM



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