From: pbonzini@redhat.com (Paolo Bonzini)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] KVM: ARM: Enable vtimers with user space gic
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:31:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da8191ca-6fb1-f960-872c-d6bc27172db8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160916123039.GB14140@cbox>
On 16/09/2016 14:30, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > > > This patch set allows user space to receive vtimer events as well as mask
> > > > them, so that we can handle all vtimer related interrupt injection from user
> > > > space, enabling us to use architected timer with user space gic emulation.
> > >
> > > I have already voiced my concerns in the past, including face to face,
> > > and I'm going to repeat it: I not keen at all on adding a new userspace
> > > interface that is going to bitrot extremely quickly.
> >
> > You don't have automated tests set up? It's not going to bitrot if you
> > test it, either with kvm-unit-tests or just by smoke-testing Linux.
> > It's _for_ the raspi, but it's not limited to it.
>
> Our automated testing situation is not great, no. Something we're
> looking at, but have resource problems with.
But it's not a good reason to hold back a feature...
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-16 6:26 [PATCH v3 0/2] KVM: ARM: Enable vtimers with user space gic Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 6:26 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] KVM: arm/arm64: Add vcpu ENABLE_CAP functionality Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 6:26 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: arm/arm64: Route vtimer events to user space Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 9:11 ` Peter Maydell
2016-09-16 9:18 ` Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 10:20 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] KVM: ARM: Enable vtimers with user space gic Marc Zyngier
2016-09-16 12:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-16 12:30 ` Christoffer Dall
2016-09-16 12:31 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-09-16 13:30 ` Christoffer Dall
2016-09-16 13:46 ` Andrew Jones
2016-09-16 15:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-16 19:36 ` Alexander Graf
2016-09-19 7:52 ` Andrew Jones
2016-09-19 11:45 ` Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 13:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-09-19 10:51 ` Alexander Graf
2016-09-19 11:41 ` Christoffer Dall
2016-09-16 12:25 ` Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 12:29 ` Christoffer Dall
2016-09-16 12:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-16 12:44 ` Alexander Graf
2016-09-16 12:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-09-17 15:28 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-09-17 15:38 ` Peter Maydell
2016-09-17 16:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-09-16 12:43 ` Alexander Graf
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