On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 03:21:06PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27 2017 at 01:04:56 AM, Jintack Lim <jint...@cs.columbia.edu>
> wrote:
> > Now that we maintain the EL1 physical timer register states of VMs,
> > update the physical timer interrupt level along with the virtual one.
> >
> > Note that the emulated EL1 physical timer is not mapped to any hardware
> > timer, so we call a proper vgic function.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jintack Lim <jint...@cs.columbia.edu>
> > ---
> > virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> > index 0f6e935..3b6bd50 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> > @@ -180,6 +180,21 @@ static void kvm_timer_update_mapped_irq(struct
> > kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool new_level,
> > WARN_ON(ret);
> > }
> >
> > +static void kvm_timer_update_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool new_level,
> > + struct arch_timer_context *timer)
> > +{
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + BUG_ON(!vgic_initialized(vcpu->kvm));
>
> Although I've added my fair share of BUG_ON() in the code base, I've
> since reconsidered my position. If we get in a situation where the vgic
> is not initialized, maybe it would be better to just WARN_ON and return
> early rather than killing the whole box. Thoughts?
>
Could we help this series along by saying that since this BUG_ON already
exists in the kvm_timer_update_mapped_irq function, then it just
preserves functionality and it's up to someone else (me) to remove the
BUG_ON from both functions later in life?
Thanks,
-Christoffer
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