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From: peter.maydell@linaro.org (Peter Maydell)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:13:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH v8 20/20] KVM: ARM64: Add a new kvm ARM PMU device
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On 11 January 2016 at 16:09, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> I think the save/restore case is where I always flip to seeing it as a
> bunch of separate per cpu devices. It would feel better to me to
> save/restore the cpu-gic registers the same way we do all other cpu
> registers.

>>From QEMU's point of view this would be extremely awkward, which
is one reason I'm happy with the GICv3 API we came up with
and reviewed last year...

thanks
-- PMM