From: Jianyong Wu <Jianyong.Wu@arm.com>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v12 10/11] arm64: add mechanism to let user choose which counter to return
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 04:50:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <HE1PR0802MB25552E7C792D3BB9CBE2D2C7F4B30@HE1PR0802MB2555.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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Hi Richard,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2020 10:11 AM
> To: Jianyong Wu <Jianyong.Wu@arm.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; yangbo.lu@nxp.com; john.stultz@linaro.org;
> tglx@linutronix.de; pbonzini@redhat.com; sean.j.christopherson@intel.com;
> maz@kernel.org; Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>; will@kernel.org;
> Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>; Steven Price
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> kernel@lists.infradead.org; kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu;
> kvm@vger.kernel.org; Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>; Kaly Xin
> <Kaly.Xin@arm.com>; Justin He <Justin.He@arm.com>; Wei Chen
> <Wei.Chen@arm.com>; nd <nd@arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v12 10/11] arm64: add mechanism to let user choose
> which counter to return
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:37:23PM +0800, Jianyong Wu wrote:
> > In general, vm inside will use virtual counter compered with host use
> > phyical counter. But in some special scenarios, like nested
> > virtualization, phyical counter maybe used by vm. A interface added in
> > ptp_kvm driver to offer a mechanism to let user choose which counter
> > should be return from host.
>
> Sounds like you have two time sources, one for normal guest, and one for
> nested. Why not simply offer the correct one to user space automatically? If
> that cannot be done, then just offer two PHC devices with descriptive names.
>
It's a good idea, but in most case physical counter will not be used, so it's better not keep 2 ptp devices all the time.
How about adding an extra argument in struct ptp_clock_info to serve as a flag, then we can control this flag using IOCTL to determine the counter type.
In this way, no extra arguments needed in .getcrosststamp. But we also need specific code in ptp_ioctl to implement it like in this patch.
The second way, maybe we can use the flag as a module parameter, this is easier to implement.
@maz@kernel.org WDYT?
> > diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
> > index fef72f29f3c8..8b0a7b328bcd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
> > @@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, unsigned int
> cmd, unsigned long arg)
> > struct timespec64 ts;
> > int enable, err = 0;
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
> > + static long flag;
>
> static? This is not going to fly.
Need remove here.
>
> > + * In most cases, we just need virtual counter from host and
> > + * there is limited scenario using this to get physical counter
> > + * in guest.
> > + * Be careful to use this as there is no way to set it back
> > + * unless you reinstall the module.
>
> How on earth is the user supposed to know this?
>
Yeah, It's odd , should be removed.
> From your description, this "flag" really should be a module parameter.
Maybe use flag as a module parameter is a better way.
Thanks
Jianyong
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-22 8:37 [RFC PATCH v12 0/11] Enable ptp_kvm for arm64 Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 01/11] arm64: Probe for the presence of KVM hypervisor services during boot Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 02/11] arm/arm64: KVM: Advertise KVM UID to guests via SMCCC Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 03/11] psci: export smccc conduit get helper Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 13:12 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-05-25 1:37 ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-26 10:10 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-05-27 1:18 ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 04/11] ptp: Reorganize ptp_kvm modules to make it arch-independent Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 05/11] time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource in time_get_snapshot Jianyong Wu
2020-05-28 16:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-29 1:05 ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 06/11] clocksource: Add clocksource id for arm arch counter Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 07/11] psci: Add hypercall service for kvm ptp Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 14:18 ` Steven Price
2020-05-25 2:11 ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-26 11:02 ` Steven Price
2020-05-27 6:06 ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 08/11] ptp: arm64: Enable ptp_kvm for arm/arm64 Jianyong Wu
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 09/11] ptp: extend input argument for getcrosstimestamp API Jianyong Wu
2020-05-24 1:42 ` Richard Cochran
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 10/11] arm64: add mechanism to let user choose which counter to return Jianyong Wu
2020-05-24 1:47 ` Richard Cochran
2020-05-24 2:11 ` Richard Cochran
2020-05-25 4:50 ` Jianyong Wu [this message]
2020-05-25 6:16 ` Richard Cochran
2020-05-25 6:29 ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-25 9:17 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-25 14:18 ` Jianyong Wu
2020-05-25 15:28 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-22 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH v12 11/11] arm64: Add kvm capability check extension for ptp_kvm Jianyong Wu
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