On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 09:37:36AM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:14 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023, Haibo Xu wrote: > > > The sstc_timer selftest is used to validate Sstc timer functionality > > > in a guest, which sets up periodic timer interrupts and check the > > > basic interrupt status upon its receipt. > > > > > > This KVM selftest was ported from aarch64 arch_timer and tested > > > with Linux v6.5-rc3 on a Qemu riscv64 virt machine. > > > > Would it be possible to extract the ARM bits from arch_timer and make the bulk of > > the test common to ARM and RISC-V? At a glance, there is quite a bit of copy+paste. > > Sure, I will have a try to consolidate the common code for ARM and RISC-V in v2. > Yes, afaict, we should be able to make aarch64/arch_timer.c another "split test", like we did for aarch64/get-reg-list.c, but before we do that, I'd like to get an ack from the Arm maintainers on the get-reg-list split to be sure that approach is acceptable. Thanks, drew
