[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Add VGICv3 save/restore API documentation
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Oct 9 01:06:42 PDT 2015
On 09/10/15 08:30, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Hello!
>
>> + KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CPU_SYSREGS
>> + Attributes:
>> + The attr field of kvm_device_attr encodes two values:
>> + bits: | 63 .... 32 | 31 .... 16 | 15 .... 0 |
>> + values: | mpidr | RES | instr |
>
> One small clarification: do you really want it to be different from KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS?
One is memory mapped, the other one is a system register. One is
addressed by a linear index, the other one by affinity.
How do you reconcile the two? What's the point of trying to shoehorn a
different concept into the existing API?
M.
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