From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cdall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:30:58 +0100
Subject: [RFC v3 08/10] KVM: arm/arm64: Set up a background timer for the
 physical timer emulation
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 12:43:08PM -0500, Jintack Lim wrote:
> Set a background timer for the EL1 physical timer emulation while VMs
> are running, so that VMs get the physical timer interrupts in a timely
> manner.
> 
> Schedule the background timer on entry to the VM and cancel it on exit.
> This would not have any performance impact to the guest OSes that
> currently use the virtual timer since the physical timer is always not
> enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jintack Lim <jintack@cs.columbia.edu>

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>