[PATCH v4 07/20] KVM: arm/arm64: Make timer_arm and timer_disarm helpers more generic

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Oct 25 06:49:14 PDT 2017


On Fri, Oct 20 2017 at  1:49:26 pm BST, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> From: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
>
> We are about to add an additional soft timer to the arch timer state for
> a VCPU and would like to be able to reuse the functions to program and
> cancel a timer, so we make them slightly more generic and rename to make
> it more clear that these functions work on soft timers and not the
> hardware resource that this code is managing.
>
> The armed flag on the timer state is only used to assert a condition,
> and we don't rely on this assertion in any meaningful way, so we can
> simply get rid of this flack and slightly reduce complexity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.
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