[PATCH][next] arm64: KVM: GICv3: move system register access to msr_s/mrs_s

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Jul 31 06:32:27 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:19:47PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:16:39PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Commit 72c583951526 (arm64: gicv3: Allow GICv3 compilation with
> > older binutils) changed the way we express the GICv3 system registers,
> > but couldn't change the occurences used by KVM as the code wasn't
> > merged yet.
> > 
> > Just fix the accessors.
> > 
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> > Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> > ---
> > -next is currently borked. I suggest we take this patch via the kvmarm tree,
> > and only send our PR once the arm64 tree has hit Linus' tree. It contains
> > the same dependency on the GIC tree anyway.
> 
> I'm fine with that as long as Paulo doesn't mind waiting for the arm64 stuff
> to go in first (I have no reason to delay my pull request, so shouldn't be
> an issue).
> 
> If it helps:
> 
>   Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> 
> I can't help but point out that we wouldn't be in this mess if you'd got
> your stuff into -next sooner ;)
> 

Well yes, but it was hard to plan our holidays around the deadlines and
unfortunately I couldn't find time to verify the kvmarm branch to make
it ready for -next inclusion before I went on holiday this time.  In any
case, this should be the exception rather than the rule, and I do try to
get the next branch ready as soon as possible usually.

-Christoffer



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