[PATCH v5 02/11] ARM/ARM64: KVM: Add base for PSCI v0.2 emulation

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Sun Mar 23 13:44:31 EDT 2014


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 09:54:55AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> On 22 March 2014 04:57, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:23:25PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> >> Currently, the in-kernel PSCI emulation provides PSCI v0.1 interface to
> >> VCPUs. This patch extends current in-kernel PSCI emulation to provide
> >> PSCI v0.2 interface to VCPUs.
> >>
> >> By default, ARM/ARM64 KVM will always provide PSCI v0.1 interface for
> >> keeping the ABI backward-compatible.
> >>
> >> To select PSCI v0.2 interface for VCPUs, the user space (i.e. QEMU or
> >> KVMTOOL) will have to set KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2 feature when doing VCPU
> >> init using KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT ioctl.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar at linaro.org>
> >
> > The content here can carry my Reviewed-by tag, but I think Rob's point
> > about sharing this code between KVM arm/arm64 and the PSCI code itself
> > it important, see:
> >
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-March/241792.html
> 
> My apologies, I totally missed Rob's comment.

No worries at all.

> 
> My suggestion would be to have:
> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/psci.h
> arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/psci.h

I think the suggestion was to move all this to include/uapi/linux/psci.h
or something equivalent so also arm and arm64 can share these defines,
but maybe I read too much into it.

Rob?



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