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Message-ID: <557729A0.1030700@arm.com>
Date:	Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:00:00 +0100
From:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>
CC:	"christoffer.dall@...aro.org" <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
	"geoff@...radead.org" <geoff@...radead.org>,
	"broonie@...nel.org" <broonie@...nel.org>,
	"david.griego@...aro.org" <david.griego@...aro.org>,
	"freddy77@...il.com" <freddy77@...il.com>,
	"kexec@...ts.infradead.org" <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] arm64: kvm: allows kvm cpu hotplug

Hi Takahiro,

On 29/05/15 06:38, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> The current kvm implementation on arm64 does cpu-specific initialization
> at system boot, and has no way to gracefully shutdown a core in terms of
> kvm. This prevents, especially, kexec from rebooting the system on a boot
> core in EL2.
> 
> This patch adds a cpu tear-down function and also puts an existing cpu-init
> code into a separate function, kvm_arch_hardware_disable() and
> kvm_arch_hardware_enable() respectively.
> We don't need arm64-specific cpu hotplug hook any more.
> 
> Since this patch modifies common part of code between arm and arm64, one
> stub definition, __cpu_reset_hyp_mode(), is added on arm side to avoid
> compiling errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>

This is starting to look good. Any chance you or Geoff could repost the
whole series? This would help getting a better view of the whole thing,
and hopefully put it on track for 4.3.

Thanks,

	M.
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