Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: KVM: Use instruction patching for GIC world switch

2015-06-12 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:06:35PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > The current way we deal with the GIC world switch on arm64 is a bit > convoluted. As we have two possible backends, we rely on a couple of > indirections set at boot time. These indirection never change, so it > would make more sense t

[PATCH 0/2] arm64: KVM: Use instruction patching for GIC world switch

2015-06-12 Thread Marc Zyngier
The current way we deal with the GIC world switch on arm64 is a bit convoluted. As we have two possible backends, we rely on a couple of indirections set at boot time. These indirection never change, so it would make more sense to directly patch in a branch to the right function. To do this, we in