[PATCH v8 20/20] KVM: ARM64: Add a new kvm ARM PMU device

Andrew Jones drjones at redhat.com
Mon Jan 11 08:48:45 PST 2016


On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 04:13:12PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 January 2016 at 16:09, Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I think the save/restore case is where I always flip to seeing it as a
> > bunch of separate per cpu devices. It would feel better to me to
> > save/restore the cpu-gic registers the same way we do all other cpu
> > registers.
> 
> From QEMU's point of view this would be extremely awkward, which
> is one reason I'm happy with the GICv3 API we came up with
> and reviewed last year...

OK, I'll shut up about this. As I didn't speak then, I shall now forever
hold my peace :)

drew



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