[PATCH 15/16] KVM: arm64: selftests: Augment existing timer test to handle variable offsets

[Marc Zyngier]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:47:01 +0000,
Colton Lewis <coltonlewis at google.com> wrote:
> 
> I'll be looking at it and will keep in mind your questions about my
> hardware should I find any issues. Yes it has ECV and CNTPOFF but no I
> didn't try turning it off for this because my issue occured only when
> setting a physical offset and that can't be done without ECV.

And yet this is exactly what these patches do: allow setting a
physical offset without ECV+CNTPOFF.

CNTPOFF is only a performance optimisation. It could be that my
handling of CNTPOFF is buggy, or that your HW is less than stellar, or
both. Testing the various combinations would certainly help.

	M.

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