[PATCH v6 01/10] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Gather KVM specific information in a structure

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
Mon Apr 11 22:43:13 PDT 2016


On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 04:32:51PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> Introduce a structure which are filled up by the arch timer driver and
> used by the virtual timer in KVM.
> 
> The first member of this structure will be the timecounter. More members
> will be added later.
> 
> A stub for the new helper isn't introduced because KVM requires the arch
> timer for both ARM64 and ARM32.
> 
> The function arch_timer_get_timecounter is kept for the time being and
> will be dropped in a subsequent patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> 

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>



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