Re: kvm-unit-tests arm ptimer test

2017-08-10 Thread Andrew Jones
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:33:08PM +0530, Kalra, Ashish wrote: > > Just realized that KVM/ARM now supports EL1 physical timer emulation > for guests and had a look at the patch set that enables VMs to use the EL1 > physical timer through trap-and-emulate for arm64. I am using an > older KVM releas

Re: kvm-unit-tests arm ptimer test

2017-08-10 Thread Kalra, Ashish
Just realized that KVM/ARM now supports EL1 physical timer emulation for guests and had a look at the patch set that enables VMs to use the EL1 physical timer through trap-and-emulate for arm64. I am using an older KVM release which is causing guest termination on physical timer access. Thanks

kvm-unit-tests arm ptimer test

2017-08-09 Thread Kalra, Ashish
Hello, I have a general question on the ptimer test for KVM unit tests for the ARM/ARM64 platform, as the guest is only allowed to access to the physical counter and access to the physical timer is not allowed for the guest (CNTHCTL.EL1PCTEN is set and CNTHCTL.EL1PCEN is clear), so how is thi