From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp, mtosatti@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
mingo@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org, avi@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/12] KVM, x86, ppc, asm-generic: moving dirty bitmaps to user space
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:55:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE97DFA.1060408@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100504215645.6448af8f.takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> Hi, sorry for sending from my personal account.
> The following series are all from me:
>
> From: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
>
> The 3rd version of "moving dirty bitmaps to user space".
>
> From this version, we add x86 and ppc and asm-generic people to CC lists.
>
>
> [To KVM people]
>
> Sorry for being late to reply your comments.
>
> Avi,
> - I've wrote an answer to your question in patch 5/12: drivers/vhost/vhost.c .
>
> - I've considered to change the set_bit_user_non_atomic to an inline function,
> but did not change because the other helpers in the uaccess.h are written as
> macros. Anyway, I hope that x86 people will give us appropriate suggestions
> about this.
>
> - I thought that documenting about making bitmaps 64-bit aligned will be
> written when we add an API to register user-allocated bitmaps. So probably
> in the next series.
>
> Avi, Alex,
> - Could you check the ia64 and ppc parts, please? I tried to keep the logical
> changes as small as possible.
>
> I personally tried to build these with cross compilers. For ia64, I could check
> build success with my patch series. But book3s, even without my patch series,
> it failed with the following errors:
>
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_paired_singles.c: In function 'kvmppc_emulate_paired_single':
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_paired_singles.c:1289: error: the frame size of 2288 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_paired_singles.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm] Error 2
>
This is bad. I haven't encountered that one at all so far, but I guess
my compiler version is different from yours. Sigh.
>
> About changelog: there are two main changes from the 2nd version:
> 1. I changed the treatment of clean slots (see patch 1/12).
> This was already applied today, thanks!
> 2. I changed the switch API. (see patch 11/12).
>
> To show this API's advantage, I also did a test (see the end of this mail).
>
>
> [To x86 people]
>
> Hi, Thomas, Ingo, Peter,
>
> Please review the patches 4,5/12. Because this is the first experience for
> me to send patches to x86, please tell me if this lacks anything.
>
>
> [To ppc people]
>
> Hi, Benjamin, Paul, Alex,
>
> Please see the patches 6,7/12. I first say sorry for that I've not tested these
> yet. In that sense, these may not be in the quality for precise reviews. But I
> will be happy if you would give me any comments.
>
> Alex, could you help me? Though I have a plan to get PPC box in the future,
> currently I cannot test these.
>
Could you please point me to a git tree where everything's readily
applied? That would make testing a lot easier.
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-11 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 12:56 [RFC][PATCH 0/12] KVM, x86, ppc, asm-generic: moving dirty bitmaps to user space Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 12:58 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/12 applied today] KVM: x86: avoid unnecessary bitmap allocation when memslot is clean Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:00 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/12] KVM: introduce slot level dirty state management Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/12] KVM: introduce wrapper functions to create and destroy dirty bitmaps Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/12] x86: introduce copy_in_user() for 32-bit Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/12] x86: introduce __set_bit() like function for bitmaps in user space Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/12 not tested yet] PPC: introduce copy_in_user() for 32-bit Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:04 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/12 not tested yet] PPC: introduce __set_bit() like function for bitmaps in user space Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-11 16:00 ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-12 9:25 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:05 ` [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit offset macro Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 15:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 16:08 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-05 2:59 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-06 13:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-10 11:46 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-10 12:01 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-10 12:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-10 12:09 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/12] KVM: introduce a wrapper function of set_bit_user_non_atomic() Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:07 ` [RFC][PATCH RFC 10/12] KVM: move dirty bitmaps to user space Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-11 3:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-05-12 6:27 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:08 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/12] KVM: introduce new API for getting/switching dirty bitmaps Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-11 3:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-05-11 5:53 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-11 14:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-05-12 6:03 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 13:11 ` [RFC][PATCH 12/12 sample] qemu-kvm: use " Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-10 12:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/12] KVM, x86, ppc, asm-generic: moving dirty bitmaps to user space Avi Kivity
2010-05-10 12:26 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-11 10:11 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-13 11:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-17 9:06 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-11 15:55 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2010-05-12 9:19 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
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