From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] public/xen.h: add flags field to vcpu_time_info
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:33:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FBFFD1.5070909@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22267.62855.573353.764871@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 03/30/2016 04:49 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Joao Martins writes ("[PATCH v2 1/6] public/xen.h: add flags field to vcpu_time_info"):
>> This field has two possible flags (as of latest pvclock ABI
>> shared with KVM).
>>
>> flags: bits in this field indicate extended capabilities
>> coordinated between the guest and the hypervisor. Specifically
>> on KVM, availability of specific flags has to be checked in
>> 0x40000001 cpuid leaf. On Xen, we don't have that but we can
>> still check some of the flags after registering the time info
>> page since a force_update_vcpu_system_time is performed.
>
> Earlier in the thread there was a Reviewed-by from Andrew Cooper.
> Shouldn't that have been preserved here ?
I dropped both of the Reviewed-by because I updated the patch with changes that
weren't noted in earlier reviews - I had in mind that is the protocol.
> Also, Andrew made some points about the linux.git MAINTAINERS file.
Yes, the MAINTAINERS file will be updated with the linux v2 series and the point
is to have xen-devel be notified whenever changes are made to the pvclock ABI
(that is shared with KVM).
Joao
> Ideally I would like to commit this patch ASAP.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian.
>
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 13:44 [PATCH v2 0/6] x86/time: PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT support Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] public/xen.h: add flags field to vcpu_time_info Joao Martins
2016-03-30 15:49 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-30 16:33 ` Joao Martins [this message]
2016-03-31 7:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-31 7:13 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-31 11:04 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 10:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 10:59 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] x86/time: refactor init_platform_time() Joao Martins
2016-04-01 16:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-01 18:26 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 10:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 10:55 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 11:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] x86/time: implement tsc as clocksource Joao Martins
2016-03-29 17:39 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-29 17:52 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-01 16:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-01 18:38 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-01 18:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-03 18:47 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 10:43 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 14:56 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 15:12 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 17:07 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] x86/time: streamline platform time init on plt_init() Joao Martins
2016-04-05 11:46 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 15:12 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 15:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 17:17 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] x86/time: refactor read_platform_stime() Joao Martins
2016-04-01 18:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-05 11:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 15:22 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-05 15:26 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 17:08 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-29 13:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] x86/time: implement PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT Joao Martins
2016-04-05 12:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 21:34 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-07 15:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 21:17 ` Joao Martins
2016-04-07 21:32 ` Jan Beulich
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