[PATCH v5 00/57] KVM: arm/arm64: Rework virtual GIC emulation
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Fri May 20 08:04:25 PDT 2016
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 07:07:39PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> hopefully the final version of the new VGIC series.
> Again mostly smaller fixes: A new patch (8/57) to establish the
> arch timer <-> VGIC connection later in the init process, to avoid
> calls to VGIC code before the VGIC is actually initialized.
> Also we now make sure that no VCPU is running while userland accesses
> the VGIC registers. The set-active-bit code has been slightly adjusted
> to cover a corner case as well. Last, but not least we now properly
> annotate our lock nesting so the kernel is happy now even with
> CONFIG_SPINLOCK_DEBUG enabled.
> More detailed changelog in the patches.
>
> As this new VGIC emulation will probably become the default very shortly,
> please test it full steam on whatever setup you have access to.
> Any reports are warmly welcome.
>
> As v4, this series is based on kvmarm/next, which will be merged
> shortly into Linus' kernel.
> A git tree containing this series can be found on linux-arm.org:
>
> git://linux-arm.org/linux-ap.git branch: vgic-new/v5
> http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-ap.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/vgic-new/v5
>
Applied, huge thanks for all this work to all participants!
-Christoffer
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