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From: Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com>
To: pbonzini@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com
Cc: yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Luo <bn0418@gmail.com>,
	Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 6/7] Doc/KVM: introduce a new cpuid bit for kvm pvtimer
Date: Fri,  8 Dec 2017 16:39:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1512722390-3654-7-git-send-email-quan.xu0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1512722390-3654-1-git-send-email-quan.xu0@gmail.com>

From: Ben Luo <bn0418@gmail.com>

KVM_FEATURE_PV_TIMER enables guest to check whether pvtimer
can be enabled in guest.

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Luo <bn0418@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt  |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                 |    1 +
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
index 3c65feb..b26b31c 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT              ||     7 || guest checks this feature bit
                                    ||       || before enabling paravirtualized
                                    ||       || spinlock support.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+KVM_FEATURE_PV_TIMER               ||     8 || guest checks this feature bit
+                                   ||       || before enabling paravirtualized
+                                   ||       || timer support.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT ||    24 || host will warn if no guest-side
                                    ||       || per-cpu warps are expected in
                                    ||       || kvmclock.
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
index 3dd6116..46734a8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #define KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME		5
 #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI		6
 #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT		7
+#define KVM_FEATURE_PV_TIMER		8
 
 /* The last 8 bits are used to indicate how to interpret the flags field
  * in pvclock structure. If no bits are set, all flags are ignored.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
index 0099e10..e02fd23 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
@@ -593,6 +593,7 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
 			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2) |
 			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF) |
 			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI) |
+			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_TIMER) |
 			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT) |
 			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT);
 
-- 
1.7.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-08  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-08  8:39 [PATCH RFC 0/7] kvm pvtimer Quan Xu
2017-12-08  8:39 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] kvm: x86: emulate MSR_KVM_PV_TIMER_EN MSR Quan Xu
2017-12-08  8:39 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] kvm: x86: add a function to exchange value Quan Xu
2017-12-08  8:39 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] KVM: timer: synchronize tsc-deadline timestamp for guest Quan Xu
2017-12-08 15:06   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-12-14  1:54     ` Quan Xu
2017-12-08  8:39 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] KVM: timer: program timer to a dedicated CPU Quan Xu
2017-12-08  8:39 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] KVM: timer: ignore timer migration if pvtimer is enabled Quan Xu
2017-12-08  8:39 ` Quan Xu [this message]
2017-12-08  8:39 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] kvm: guest: reprogram guest timer Quan Xu
2017-12-08 15:10 ` [PATCH RFC 0/7] kvm pvtimer Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
     [not found]   ` <CAFv8KnF1Re7Zn2LVvqh=Sr8MmaWJJwZBB1i5ws03GvPVKXRjzA@mail.gmail.com>
2017-12-13 16:28     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-12-14  2:32       ` Quan Xu
2017-12-14 11:56       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-12-14 12:06         ` Quan Xu
2017-12-14 13:00           ` Paolo Bonzini

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