Re: [PATCH v5 1/9] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Gather KVM specific information in a structure

From: Christoffer Dall
Date: Wed Apr 06 2016 - 13:26:13 EST


On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:37:32PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> Introduce a structure which are filled up by the arch timer driver and
> used by the virtual timer in KVM.
>
> The first member of this structure will be the timecounter. More members
> will be added later.
>
> A stub for the new helper isn't introduced because KVM requires the arch
> timer for both ARM64 and ARM32.
>
> The function arch_timer_get_timecounter is kept for the time being and
> will be dropped in a subsequent patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>