From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA359C1975A for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 03:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4302206EC for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 03:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726847AbgCRDSN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:18:13 -0400 Received: from szxga04-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.190]:11655 "EHLO huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726478AbgCRDSN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:18:13 -0400 Received: from DGGEMS409-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.58]) by Forcepoint Email with ESMTP id A972390756A414F4186A; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:18:08 +0800 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (10.173.222.27) by DGGEMS409-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.209) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.487.0; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:17:59 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 21/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Reload VLPI configuration on distributor enable/disable To: Marc Zyngier , , , , CC: Lorenzo Pieralisi , Jason Cooper , Robert Richter , "Thomas Gleixner" , Eric Auger , "James Morse" , Julien Thierry , Suzuki K Poulose References: <20200304203330.4967-1-maz@kernel.org> <20200304203330.4967-22-maz@kernel.org> From: Zenghui Yu Message-ID: <7f112d75-166b-24eb-538d-e100242d8e9a@huawei.com> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:17:57 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200304203330.4967-22-maz@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.173.222.27] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2020/3/5 4:33, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Each time a Group-enable bit gets flipped, the state of these bits > needs to be forwarded to the hardware. This is a pretty heavy > handed operation, requiring all vcpus to reload their GICv4 > configuration. It is thus implemented as a new request type. [note to myself] ... and the status are forwarded to HW by programming VGrp{0,1}En fields of GICR_VPENDBASER when vPEs are made resident next time. > > Of course, we only support Group-1 for now... > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu Thanks