Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] arm64: Add support for KVM with ACPI

Christoffer Dall
2016-04-06T17:26:34Z

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This patch series allows KVM to work with ACPI on ARM64.
>
> Currently, the firmware tables are parsed by the the virtual timer and virtual
> GIC code in order to configure them correctly.
>
> However the parsing of these tables is already done in the GIC and arch timer
> drivers. This patch series introduces new helpers to retrieve the information
> from the different drivers in order to avoid duplication of the parsing code.
>
> To make the merge easier via the different trees, each patch modifies a single
> subsystem. The suggested plan to merge the series is divided in 3 steps:
>
> 1) Patches #1-#2 are merged via the clocksource tree
> Patches #2-#6 are merged via the irqchip tree
> 2) Patches #7-#8 are merge via the KVM tree
> 3) Patch #9 is merged via the clocksource tree.
>

I'm not a clocksource or irqchip expert, and far from an ACPI expert,
but this series overall looks good to me now.

I guess we'll need to wait until the patches are in the clocksource and
irqchip trees, and then merge that into the kvmarm tree, and apply patch
7 and 8 on top, or is there a simpler way to do this?

Thanks,
-Christoffer