Re: [PATCH V1 0/5] Enable ACPI support for KVM ARM

[Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>]

Hi Christoffer and Marc,

Ping. Any comments on this patchset for V2?

Thanks,
-Wei


On 5/28/15 00:23, Wei Huang wrote:
> Initial ACPI support for ARM64 has been accepted into Linux kernel recently.
> Now it is a good time to re-visit ACPI support for KVM. This patchset
> enables ACPI for both arch_timer and vGIC by probing related ACPI tables
> and does necessary initialization.
>
> Note that Alexander Spyridaki submitted similar patches before. Some of
> his ideas were borrowed in this patchset, but with substancial changes.
> In addition we extend support for both GICv2 and GICv3.
>
> This patchset would work better on top of recent GIC/IRQCHIP patches by
> Hanjun Guo, who added support for gic_version in ACPI struct of GIC
> distributor (search "ACPICA: Introduce GIC version for arm based system").
>
> This patchset can be applied cleanly on top of Linx 4.1-rc1.
>
> Wei Huang (5):
>    kvm: arm64: Enable ACPI support for virt arch timer
>    kvm: arm64: Dispatch virt GIC probing to device tree and ACPI
>    kvm: arm64: Detect GIC version for proper ACPI vGIC probing
>    kvm: arm64: Implement ACPI probing code for GICv2
>    kvm: arm64: Implement ACPI probing code for GICv3
>
>   include/kvm/arm_vgic.h    |  36 +++++++++---
>   virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c |  64 ++++++++++++++++-----
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c    |  65 +++++++++++++++++++--
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c    |  56 +++++++++++++++++--
>   virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c       | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   5 files changed, 320 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>