From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 20/32] arm64: KVM: Plug the arch timer Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:31:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20130502153134.GH20730@arm.com> References: <1365437854-30214-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <1365437854-30214-21-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <20130423230024.GH20569@gmail.com> <5177C577.2050209@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoffer Dall , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , Will Deacon , Christopher Covington To: Marc Zyngier Return-path: Received: from fw-tnat.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.21]:56401 "EHLO cam-smtp0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757835Ab3EBPcT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 May 2013 11:32:19 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5177C577.2050209@arm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:43:51PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 24/04/13 00:00, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:17:22PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > >> Add support for the in-kernel timer emulation. The include file > >> is a complete duplicate of the 32bit one - something to fix > >> at one point. > > > > again, I'd really like to see this fixed before we merge the code... > > Feel free to suggest a solution. None of the one I tried are nice. Both arch timers and GIC are now drivers outside the arch/ directories. To me it makes sense for emulated device drivers to also live outside the arch/ directories, something like virt/kvm/drivers? As you said, ioapic is already in virt/kvm. -- Catalin