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If you're running with a userspace gic or other interrupt controller (that is no vgic in the kernel), then you have so far not been able to use the architected timers, because the output of the architected timers, which are driven inside the kernel, was a kernel-only construct between the arch timer code and the vgic. This patch implements the new KVM_CAP_ARM_USER_IRQ feature, where we use a side channel on the kvm_run structure, run->s.regs.device_irq_level, to always notify userspace of the timer output levels when using a userspace irqchip. This works by ensuring that before we enter the guest, if the timer output level has changed compared to what we last told userspace, we don't enter the guest, but instead return to userspace to notify it of the new level. If we are exiting, because of an MMIO for example, and the level changed at the same time, the value is also updated and userspace can sample the line as it needs. This is nicely achieved simply always updating the timer_irq_level field after the main run loop. Note that the kvm_timer_update_irq trace event is changed to show the host IRQ number for the timer instead of the guest IRQ number, because the kernel no longer know which IRQ userspace wires up the timer signal to. Also note that this patch implements all required functionality but does not yet advertise the capability. Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.