From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 9/9] Documentation: virtual: kvm: Support vcpu preempted check
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:27:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DB0207B44@AcuExch.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476998874-2089-10-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
From: Pan Xinhui
> Sent: 20 October 2016 22:28
> Commit ("x86, kvm: support vcpu preempted check") add one field "__u8
> preempted" into struct kvm_steal_time. This field tells if one vcpu is
> running or not.
>
> It is zero if 1) some old KVM deos not support this filed. 2) the vcpu is
> preempted. Other values means the vcpu has been preempted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> index 2a71c8f..3376f13 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> @@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03
> __u64 steal;
> __u32 version;
> __u32 flags;
> - __u32 pad[12];
> + __u8 preempted;
> + __u32 pad[11];
> }
I think I'd be explicit about the 3 pad bytes you've left.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-21 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-20 21:27 [PATCH v5 0/9] implement vcpu preempted check Pan Xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface Pan Xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq_lock() Pan Xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] kernel/locking: Drop the overload of {mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner Pan Xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] powerpc/spinlock: support vcpu preempted check Pan Xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] x86, paravirt: Add interface to support kvm/xen " Pan Xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] x86, kvm: support " Pan Xinhui
2016-10-24 8:08 ` xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] x86, xen: " Pan Xinhui
2016-10-21 5:08 ` Juergen Gross
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] s390/spinlock: Provide vcpu_is_preempted Pan Xinhui
2016-10-20 21:27 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] Documentation: virtual: kvm: Support vcpu preempted check Pan Xinhui
2016-10-21 1:23 ` Boqun Feng
2016-10-21 11:27 ` David Laight [this message]
2016-10-21 18:39 ` rkrcmar
2016-10-24 2:46 ` xinhui
2016-10-24 14:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-24 15:05 ` rkrcmar
2016-10-24 2:44 ` xinhui
2016-10-24 8:12 ` xinhui
2016-10-21 5:40 ` [PATCH v5 0/9] implement " Peter Zijlstra
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