[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: vgic: Resample HW pending state on deactivation

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Fri Aug 20 00:58:22 PDT 2021


On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:03:05 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> When a mapped level interrupt (a timer, for example) is deactivated
> by the guest, the corresponding host interrupt is equally deactivated.
> However, the fate of the pending state still needs to be dealt
> with in SW.
> 
> This is specially true when the interrupt was in the active+pending
> state in the virtual distributor at the point where the guest
> was entered. On exit, the pending state is potentially stale
> (the guest may have put the interrupt in a non-pending state).
> 
> [...]

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: vgic: Resample HW pending state on deactivation
      commit: 3134cc8beb69d0db9de651081707c4651c011621

Cheers,

	M.
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