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    ARM: KVM: Allow creating the VGIC after VCPUs · e1ba0207
    Christoffer Dall authored
    Rework the VGIC initialization slightly to allow initialization of the
    vgic cpu-specific state even if the irqchip (the VGIC) hasn't been
    created by user space yet.  This is safe, because the vgic data
    structures are already allocated when the CPU is allocated if VGIC
    support is compiled into the kernel.  Further, the init process does not
    depend on any other information and the sacrifice is a slight
    performance degradation for creating VMs in the no-VGIC case.
    
    The reason is that the new device control API doesn't mandate creating
    the VGIC before creating the VCPU and it is unreasonable to require user
    space to create the VGIC before creating the VCPUs.
    
    At the same time move the irqchip_in_kernel check out of
    kvm_vcpu_first_run_init and into the init function to make the per-vcpu
    and global init functions symmetric and add comments on the exported
    functions making it a bit easier to understand the init flow by only
    looking at vgic.c.
    Acked-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
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