On Mon, Aug 25, 2025, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:52:21 +0100, > Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> wrote: > > Is there a sane way to handle vGIC creation in kvm_arch_vm_post_create()? > > E.g. > > could we create a v3 GIC when possible, and fall back to v2? And then > > provide a > > way for tests to express a hard v3 GIC dependency? > > You can ask KVM what's available. Like an actual VMM does. There is no > shortage of examples in the current code base.
Right, by "sane" I meant: is there a way to instantiate a supported GIC without making it hard/painful to write tests, and without having to plumb in arm64 specific requirements to common APIs? E.g. are there tests that use the common vm_create() APIs and rely on NOT having a GIC? > And ideally, this should be made an integral part of creating a viable > VM, which the current VM creation hack makes a point in not providing.
