[PATCH v3 09/11] KVM: arm/arm64: merge GICv3 RD_base and SGI_base register frames
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Mar 26 14:53:08 PDT 2015
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:39:36 +0000
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> Currently we handle the redistributor registers in two separate MMIO
> regions, one for the overall behaviour and SPIs and one for the
> SGIs/PPIs. That latter forces the creation of _two_ KVM I/O bus
> devices for each redistributor.
> Since the spec mandates those two pages to be contigious, we could as
> well merge them and save the churn with the second KVM I/O bus device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
I wonder why we didn't have it that way the first place...
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
M.
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