From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] KVM: arm/arm64: Route vtimer events to user space
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:44:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160916094433.GA4794@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474002553-30079-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>
Alex,
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 07:09:13AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> We have 2 modes for dealing with interrupts in the ARM world. We can either
> handle them all using hardware acceleration through the vgic or we can emulate
> a gic in user space and only drive CPU IRQ pins from there.
>
> Unfortunately, when driving IRQs from user space, we never tell user space
> about timer events that may result in interrupt line state changes, so we
> lose out on timer events if we run with user space gic emulation.
>
> This patch set fixes that by routing vtimer expiration events to user space.
> With this patch I can successfully run edk2 and Linux with user space gic
> emulation.
I have two versions of v2. Are there any differences or did it just go
out twice or got duplicated somehow on my end?
Thanks,
-Christoffer
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2016-09-16 5:09 [PATCH v2] KVM: arm/arm64: Route vtimer events to user space Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 9:44 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2016-09-16 12:28 ` Alexander Graf
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2016-09-16 5:06 Alexander Graf
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