From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier) Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:35:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/2] arm/arm64: KVM: Fix arthictected timer issues In-Reply-To: <1441376679-8341-1-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> References: <1441376679-8341-1-git-send-email-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Message-ID: <55E9BA38.7030305@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Christoffer, On 04/09/15 15:24, Christoffer Dall wrote: > These two patches fix two separate issues with the architected timer and > the corresponding interrupt injection to VMs on KVM/ARM. > > The first patch fixes an issue introduced with the active timer state > switching series recently merged for v4.3, which could cause a guest to > loop without progress if another VCPU is run on the same physical CPU > and preempts the original VCPU while the guest is running the ISR for > the timer interrupt. > > The second patch resets the architected timer's control register to zero > on system reset, ensuring that interrupts are not injected when a system > resets. This fixes a long-standing issue with UEFI, where soft reset > initiated from within UEFI prevented the system from booting again. Thanks for respinning these patches. I've queued them in our -next queue. I'll send this to Paolo some time next week, once they get some hammering. M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...