[PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: Move shared files to virt/kvm/arm

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Thu May 4 06:07:03 PDT 2017



On 04/05/2017 14:33, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> For some time now we have been having a lot of shared functionality
> between the arm and arm64 KVM support in arch/arm, which not only
> required a horrible inter-arch reference from the Makefile in
> arch/arm64/kvm, but also created confusion for newcomers to the code
> base, as was recently seen on the mailing list.
> 
> Further, it causes confusion for things like cscope, which needs special
> attention to index specific shared files for arm64 from the arm tree.
> 
> Move the shared files into virt/kvm/arm and move the trace points along
> with it.  When moving the tracepoints we have to modify the way the vgic
> creates definitions of the trace points, so we take the chance to
> include the VGIC tracepoints in its very own special vgic trace.h file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
> ---
> Hi Marc,
> 
> What do you think of this?  If you like it, I think we should include it
> for this merge window.

Certainly no objection from me, in fact this should not be a problem
even after -rc1.

Paolo



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