From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: drjones@redhat.com (Andrew Jones) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:48:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v8 20/20] KVM: ARM64: Add a new kvm ARM PMU device In-Reply-To: References: <568E7AF1.9040103@huawei.com> <20160107203647.GJ6199@hawk.localdomain> <20160109122956.GA30867@cbox> <20160109150339.10576e81@arm.com> <20160111140717.GD3924@hawk.localdomain> <20160111150929.GB15554@cbox> <20160111160927.GF3924@hawk.localdomain> Message-ID: <20160111164845.GI3924@hawk.localdomain> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 04:13:12PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 11 January 2016 at 16:09, Andrew Jones wrote: > > I think the save/restore case is where I always flip to seeing it as a > > bunch of separate per cpu devices. It would feel better to me to > > save/restore the cpu-gic registers the same way we do all other cpu > > registers. > > From QEMU's point of view this would be extremely awkward, which > is one reason I'm happy with the GICv3 API we came up with > and reviewed last year... OK, I'll shut up about this. As I didn't speak then, I shall now forever hold my peace :) drew