Re: [PATCH 0/4] RISCV: Add kvm Sstc timer selftest

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 11:15:04 EST


On Thu, Jul 27, 2023, Haibo Xu wrote:
> The sstc_timer selftest is used to validate Sstc timer functionality
> in a guest, which sets up periodic timer interrupts and check the
> basic interrupt status upon its receipt.
>
> This KVM selftest was ported from aarch64 arch_timer and tested
> with Linux v6.5-rc3 on a Qemu riscv64 virt machine.

Would it be possible to extract the ARM bits from arch_timer and make the bulk of
the test common to ARM and RISC-V? At a glance, there is quite a bit of copy+paste.