[PATCH 0/3] Support userspace irqchip with arch timers

[Alexander Graf]

On 30.09.16 17:43, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 05:38:11PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 30.09.16 16:54, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27.09.16 21:08, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>
>>>> Marc and I have been looking at this during Linaro connect and have
>>>> slightly reworked your patch into this small series.
>>>>
>>>> It would be good if you could have a look at it and test it out.
>>>>
>>>> I've tested it with your QEMU, and it works for UP, but secondary CPUs
>>>> fail to come up, and it looks like the kernel never gets an IPI for
>>>> those CPUs from userspace.  Any chance you're willing to take a look at
>>>> that?
>>>
>>> I still need to see whether I can come up with a prettier solution, but
>>> for now this works:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
>>
>> Eh, no, not in i386 code :). But the problem seems to be a missing
>> mpstate sync.
>>
> Yeah, that looked really dodgy.  Have you tested it? :)

I have, but I ran the wrong command line and by accident used -M
...,kernel-irqchip=on :)


Alex