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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 4/5] arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:25:42PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > Introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING on ARM64.
> > > Necessary duplication of paravirt.h and paravirt.c with ARM.
> > >
> > > The only paravirt interface supported is pv_time_ops.steal_clock, so no
> > > runtime pvops patching needed.
> > >
> > > This allows us to make use of steal_account_process_tick for stolen
> > > ticks accounting.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> > > CC: will.deacon@arm.com
> > > CC: nico@linaro.org
> > > CC: marc.zyngier@arm.com
> > > CC: cov@codeaurora.org
> > > CC: arnd@arndb.de
> > > CC: olof@lixom.net
> > > CC: Catalin.Marinas@arm.com
> >
> > Catalin, Will, are you happy with this patch for 3.15?
>
> It's pretty small and looks fine to me. However, I would like someone
> with more virtualisation experience than me to ack it (e.g. Marc Z).

Ping? Marc, could you please give it a review?


> Some nitpicks:
>
> > > +config PARAVIRT
> > > + bool "Enable paravirtualization code"
> > > + ---help---
> > > + This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
> > > + under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
> > > + over full virtualization.
> > > +
> > > +config PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
> > > + bool "Paravirtual steal time accounting"
> > > + select PARAVIRT
> > > + default n
> > > + ---help---
>
> For consistency with this file, just use "help" rather than
> "---help---".
>
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/paravirt.h
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> > > +#ifndef _ASM_ARM64_PARAVIRT_H
> > > +#define _ASM_ARM64_PARAVIRT_H
>
> __ASM_PARAVIRT_H for consistency.
>
> --
> Catalin
>


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