[PATCH v2 4/9] KVM: arm/arm64: Move timer IRQ default init to arch_timer.c
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue May 23 10:18:21 PDT 2017
On 16/05/17 19:45, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> We currently initialize the arch timer IRQ numbers from the reset code,
> presumably because we once intended to model multiple CPU or SoC types
> from within the kernel and have hard-coded reset values in the reset
> code.
>
> As we are moving towards userspace being in charge of more fine-grained
> CPU emulation and stitching together the pieces needed to emulate a
> particular type of CPU, we should no longer have a tight coupling
> between resetting a VCPU and setting IRQ numbers.
>
> Therefore, move the logic to define and use the default IRQ numbers to
> the timer code and set the IRQ number immediately when creating the
> VCPU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
M.
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