Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] ARM: KVM: Enable in-kernel timers with user space gic

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 November 2016 at 14:32, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> When running with KVM enabled, you can choose between emulating the
> gic in kernel or user space. If the kernel supports in-kernel virtualization
> of the interrupt controller, it will default to that. If not, if will
> default to user space emulation.
>
> Unfortunately when running in user mode gic emulation, we miss out on
> timer events which are only available from kernel space. This patch leverages
> the new kernel/user space pending line synchronization for those timer events.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

thanks
-- PMM