Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/4] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Restore VLPI's pending state to physical side

From: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 10:55:20 +0000

On 2020-11-30 07:23, Shenming Lu wrote:

Hi Shenming,

> We are pondering over this problem these days, but still don't get a
> good solution...
> Could you give us some advice on this?
> 
> Or could we move the restoring of the pending states (include the sync
> from guest RAM and the transfer to HW) to the GIC VM state change 
> handler,
> which is completely corresponding to save_pending_tables (more 
> symmetric?)
> and don't expose GICv4...

What is "the GIC VM state change handler"? Is that a QEMU thing?
We don't really have that concept in KVM, so I'd appreciate if you could
be a bit more explicit on this.

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
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