Hi Marc,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Zyngier <m...@kernel.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 7:04 PM
> To: Jianyong Wu <jianyong...@arm.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 07/10] arm64/kvm: Add hypercall service for kvm
> ptp.
>
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:27:41 +0100,
> Jianyong Wu <jianyong...@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > ptp_kvm will get this service through smccc call.
> > The service offers wall time and counter cycle of host for guest.
> > caller must explicitly determines which cycle of virtual counter or
> > physical counter to return if it needs counter cycle.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong...@arm.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 6 +++++
> > arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c | 2 +-
> > arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c | 49
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h | 1 +
> > include/linux/arm-smccc.h | 16 ++++++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
>
> [...]
>
> On top of what I said yesterday:
>
> > index 32ba6fbc3814..eb85f6701845 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
> > @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ u64 timer_get_cval(struct arch_timer_context *ctxt)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > -static u64 timer_get_offset(struct arch_timer_context *ctxt)
> > +u64 timer_get_offset(struct arch_timer_context *ctxt)
> > {
> > struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = ctxt->vcpu;
> >
>
> Why has this become global? I can't see a reason why we would want to
> expose this purely KVM internal helper.
>
Sorry to have forgotten remove this change.
Thanks
Jianyong
> M.
>
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