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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/7] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation
On 06/17/2011 01:20 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information
> about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM.
> This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse
> we decided not to make.
>
> In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that
> holds the memory area address containing information about steal time
>
> This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate
> backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the
> hypervisor, or the other way around.
>
>
> index d079aed..79c12a7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> @@ -185,3 +185,36 @@ MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02
>
> Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as
> type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that.
> +
> +MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03
> +
> + data: 64-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be
> + in guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0. This memory is expected to
> + hold a copy of the following structure:
> +
> + struct kvm_steal_time {
> + __u64 steal;
> + __u32 version;
> + __u32 flags;
> + __u32 pad[6];

Should be 12 to be a 64-byte structure, no?



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