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From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-4.5 v2 0/10] remove maintenance interrupts
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:23:41 +0000
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Hi Stefano,

On 14/02/14 15:50, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> this patch series removes any needs for maintenance interrupts for both
> hardware and software interrupts in Xen.
> It achieves the goal by using the GICH_LR_HW bit for hardware interrupts
> and by checking the status of the GICH_LR registers on return to guest,
> clearing the registers that are invalid and handling the lifecycle of
> the corresponding interrupts in Xen data structures.

To keep track here, I have tried the patch series on top of the latest 
Xen. Booting Xen and Dom0 is slower with this patch series.

-- 
Julien Grall