linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] KVM: arm/arm64: arch_timer: Rely on the arch timer to parse the firmware tables

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Date:	Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:55:26 -0800
From:	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
To:	Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
Cc:	kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, marc.zyngier@....com,
	fu.wei@...aro.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	wei@...hat.com, al.stone@...aro.org,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] KVM: arm/arm64: arch_timer: Rely on the arch
 timer to parse the firmware tables

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:29:31AM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> The firmware table is currently parsed by the virtual timer code in
> order to retrieve the virtual timer interrupt. However, this is already
> done by the arch timer driver.
> 
> To avoid code duplication, use the newly function arch_timer_get_kvm_info()
> which return all the information required by the virtual timer code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
> 
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>