Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 5/6] Initial implementation of vGICv3

[Pavel Fedin]

 Hello!

> >>  I intentionally put some tracing to these conditions. On my
> >> system KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS is supported and
> >> KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT is not. So will it always be this way?
> >
> > That is weird. I thought that the kernel devs had agreed that all
> > new VGIC code should require explicit initialization (ie that
> > lazy init-on-first-time-it's-needed was only there for legacy
> > guests and the old GICv2). The lazy-init stuff was a big source
> > of bugs where things weren't inited at the point where you
> > expected, which is why it should have gone away...
> 
> I just checked with Marc, and he agreed that all kernels
> with GICv3 support should support VGIC_CTRL_INIT. What kernel
> are you running?

 v3.18 with backported GICv3 support. It is a choice of our HW vendor and their 
current official kernel.

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia