[PATCH v7 09/17] KVM: arm64: introduce ITS emulation file with MMIO framework

Auger Eric eric.auger at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 07:15:38 PDT 2016



On 04/07/2016 16:00, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/07/16 14:54, Auger Eric wrote:
>> Hi Andre,
>>
>> On 04/07/2016 15:38, Andre Przywara wrote:
>>> 2) on KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR check that "initialized" is false
>>> 3) on KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT check that "initialized" is false
>>> 4) after KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT set initialized to true
>>>
>>> I don't want to rely solely on vgic_its_base being ADDR_UNDEF, since I
>>> expect we extend that interface later by supporting more options (for
>>> instance to size the virtual ITS, in terms of devices, number of LPIs,
>>> collections, etc.)
>>>
>>> Does that make sense?
>>> Or do we need more here?
>>
>> So you will accept a call to KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT with an unset
>> address? I don't think this is relevant.
> 
> Ah, good point. Will fix this.
> 
> However I think we do the same on GICv2/GICv3 at the moment. CTRL_INIT
> will succeed, I guess we fail the first KVM_RUN then, right?
Yes the map_resources will fail with UNDEF addresses

Eric
> 
> Cheers,
> 



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