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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC V11 15/18] kvm : Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor
On 08/05/2013 07:35 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> I guess you'd want to carry this in the KVM tree or so - maybe in a
>>>> separate branch because it changes Xen as well?
>>>
>>> It changes KVM host and guest side, XEN and common x86 spinlock code. I
>>> think it would be best to merge common x86 spinlock bits and guest side
>>> KVM/XEN bits through tip tree and host KVM part will go through KVM
>>> tree. If this is OK with you, Ingo, and XEN folks Raghavendra can send
>>> two separate patch series one for the tip and one for KVM host side.
>>
>> Sure, that's fine - if the initial series works fine in isolation as well
>> (i.e. won't break anything).
>
> It would be a big problem if it didn't! Raghavendra, please send the
> two separate series as Gleb explained above.
>

Yes. Sure. The patches have been split in that way.

Only thing I am thinking is about KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT, and
KVM_HC_KICK_CPU definition in the below hunk, that is needed by guest
as well. may be this header file change can be a separate patch so that
duplicate can be handled easily during merge?

I do testing of all combination after splitting and post.

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
index 06fdbd9..94dc8ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#define KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF 4
#define KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME 5
#define KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI 6
+#define KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT 7

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h
index cea2c5c..2841f86 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#define KVM_HC_MMU_OP 2
#define KVM_HC_FEATURES 3
#define KVM_HC_PPC_MAP_MAGIC_PAGE 4
+#define KVM_HC_KICK_CPU 5



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