[PATCH v2] KVM: arm/arm64: Route vtimer events to user space

[Alexander Graf]

> On 16 Sep 2016, at 11:44, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> Alex,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 07:09:13AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> We have 2 modes for dealing with interrupts in the ARM world. We can either
>> handle them all using hardware acceleration through the vgic or we can emulate
>> a gic in user space and only drive CPU IRQ pins from there.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, when driving IRQs from user space, we never tell user space
>> about timer events that may result in interrupt line state changes, so we
>> lose out on timer events if we run with user space gic emulation.
>> 
>> This patch set fixes that by routing vtimer expiration events to user space.
>> With this patch I can successfully run edk2 and Linux with user space gic
>> emulation.
> 
> I have two versions of v2.  Are there any differences or did it just go
> out twice or got duplicated somehow on my end?

Just ignore v2. I shouldn’t send emails that early in the morning. v3 is much better ;)


Alex