Re: [PATCH 6/9] KVM: arm64: Provide a PV_TIME device to user space

Marc Zyngier
2019-08-03T17:34:29Z

On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 13:51:13 +0100
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:

[forgot that one]

> On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:50:14 +0100
> Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> wrote:

[...]

> > +static int __init kvm_pvtime_init(void)
> > +{
> > + kvm_register_device_ops(&pvtime_ops, KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_PV_TIME);
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +late_initcall(kvm_pvtime_init);

Why is it an initcall? So far, the only initcall we've used is the one
that initializes KVM itself. Can't we just the device_ops just like we
do for the vgic?

M.
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