From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Zyngier Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] KVM: arm64: Allow creating the PMU without the in-kernel GIC Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:00:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87fufainoz.fsf@arm.com> References: <20170608133446.3875-1-cdall@linaro.org> <20170608133446.3875-2-cdall@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Christoffer Dall Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170608133446.3875-2-cdall@linaro.org> (Christoffer Dall's message of "Thu, 8 Jun 2017 15:34:38 +0200") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 08 2017 at 3:34:38 pm BST, Christoffer Dall wrote: > Since we got support for devices in userspace which allows reporting the > PMU overflow output status to userspace, we should actually allow > creating the PMU on systems without an in-kernel irqchip, which in turn > requires us to slightly clarify error codes for the ABI and move things > around for the initialization phase. > > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier M. -- Jazz is not dead, it just smell funny.