From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:47:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v4 06/20] KVM: arm/arm64: Check that system supports split
 eoi/deactivate
In-Reply-To: <20171020114939.12554-7-christoffer.dall@linaro.org> (Christoffer
 Dall's message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:49:25 +0200")
References: <20171020114939.12554-1-christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
 <20171020114939.12554-7-christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
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On Fri, Oct 20 2017 at  1:49:25 pm BST, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> wrote:
> From: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
>
> Some systems without proper firmware and/or hardware description data
> don't support the split EOI and deactivate operation.
>
> On such systems, we cannot leave the physical interrupt active after the
> timer handler on the host has run, so we cannot support KVM with an
> in-kernel GIC with the timer changes we are about to introduce.
>
> This patch makes sure that trying to initialize the KVM GIC code will
> fail on such systems.
>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

	M.
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