From: Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, KVMARM <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 2/7] KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:58:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAdAUti1MreOnAXtA+jBEaq+AixmqvBEByi9G4EgDpfu63spHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa1d0bd9-55cf-161a-5af9-f5abde807353@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 5:45 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/06/21 19:46, Jing Zhang wrote:
> >> const struct kvm_stats_header kvm_vm_stats_header = {
> >> .name_size = KVM_STATS_NAME_SIZE,
> >> .num_desc = num_desc,
> > The problem is how we calculate the number of descriptors, which needs the
> > size of the descriptor array for each architecture.
> > Define another global variable to export the size of descriptor array?
>
> Pass it as an argument?
The num_desc can only be initialized in the same file that defines the
descriptor array.
Looks like we have to have a global variable to save that. The
solution would be similar
to have a statically defined header for each arch.
So, keep the header structure for each arch?
>
> Paolo
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-21 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-18 22:27 [PATCH v12 0/7] KVM statistics data fd-based binary interface Jing Zhang
2021-06-18 22:27 ` [PATCH v12 1/7] KVM: stats: Separate generic stats from architecture specific ones Jing Zhang
2021-06-18 22:27 ` [PATCH v12 2/7] KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data Jing Zhang
2021-06-21 16:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-21 17:46 ` Jing Zhang
2021-06-21 22:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-21 22:58 ` Jing Zhang [this message]
2021-06-21 23:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-21 23:38 ` Jing Zhang
2021-06-18 22:27 ` [PATCH v12 3/7] KVM: stats: Support binary stats retrieval for a VM Jing Zhang
2021-06-18 22:27 ` [PATCH v12 4/7] KVM: stats: Support binary stats retrieval for a VCPU Jing Zhang
2021-06-21 16:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-21 17:42 ` Jing Zhang
2021-06-18 22:27 ` [PATCH v12 5/7] KVM: stats: Add documentation for binary statistics interface Jing Zhang
2021-06-18 22:27 ` [PATCH v12 6/7] KVM: selftests: Add selftest for KVM statistics data binary interface Jing Zhang
2021-06-18 22:27 ` [PATCH v12 7/7] KVM: stats: Remove code duplication for binary and debugfs stats Jing Zhang
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