[libvirt PATCH v2 3/8] conf: Introduce VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_ARMVTIMER

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Feb 13 16:30:21 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 14:26 +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
> > @@ -1063,6 +1063,7 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainTimerName,
> >               "tsc",
> >               "kvmclock",
> >               "hypervclock",
> > +              "armvtimer",
> > );
> 
> Okay, so this name is a libvirt invention.

I believe "ARM virtual timer" is the official name for the device;
the name "armvtimer" is an abbreviation that me and Drew (CC'd) have
agreed upon, and I understand that's fairly commonly used too.

Drew can confirm whether this is actually the case.

> And the timer itself is present on all ARM/virt guests and cannot be
> disabled, correct?

I believe so but, once again, it'd be better if Drew confirmed it :)

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