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From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 09:06:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Add VGICv3 save/restore API documentation
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On 09/10/15 08:30, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>  Hello!
> 
>> +  KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS
>> +  Attributes:
>> +    The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
>> +    bits:     | 63      ....       32 | 31  ....  16 | 15  ....  0 |
>> +    values:   |         mpidr         |      RES     |    instr    |
> 
>  One small clarification: do you really want it to be different from KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS?

One is memory mapped, the other one is a system register. One is
addressed by a linear index, the other one by affinity.

How do you reconcile the two? What's the point of trying to shoehorn a
different concept into the existing API?

	M.
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