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Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:18:38 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To:     Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 21/23] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Reload VLPI configuration
 on distributor enable/disable
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On 2020-03-18 03:17, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> On 2020/3/5 4:33, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Each time a Group-enable bit gets flipped, the state of these bits
>> needs to be forwarded to the hardware. This is a pretty heavy
>> handed operation, requiring all vcpus to reload their GICv4
>> configuration. It is thus implemented as a new request type.
> 
> [note to myself]
> ... and the status are forwarded to HW by programming VGrp{0,1}En
> fields of GICR_VPENDBASER when vPEs are made resident next time.

I've added something based on this comment to the commit message.

Thanks!

         M.
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