[PATCH 9/9] arm/arm64: KVM: arch timer: Reset CNTV_CTL to 0

[Christoffer Dall]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:46:59AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 30 August 2015 at 15:54, Christoffer Dall
> <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> > Provide a better quality of implementation and be architecture compliant
> > on ARMv7 for the architected timer by resetting the CNTV_CTL to 0 on
> > reset of the timer, and call kvm_timer_update_state(vcpu) at the same
> > time, ensuring the timer output is not asserted after, for example, a
> > PSCI system reset.
> >
> > This change alone fixes the UEFI reset issue reported by Laszlo back in
> > February.
> >
> 
> Do you have a link to that report? I can't quite remember the details ...
> 
There was no public mailing list cc'ed on the report, and the bugzilla
bug was created in a non-public Red Hat instance.

But you were cc'ed on the original mail from Laszlo.  Look for an e-mail
from February 5th with the subject "virtual timer interrupt stuck across
guest firmware reboot on KVM".

-Christoffer