From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/9] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:22:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309555369-16867-4-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309555369-16867-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com>
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.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
CC: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
---
Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
index d079aed..38db3f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
@@ -185,3 +185,38 @@ 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[12];
+ }
+
+ whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor periodically. Only one
+ write, or registration, is needed for each VCPU. The interval between
+ updates of this structure is arbitrary and implementation-dependent.
+ The hypervisor may update this structure at any time it sees fit until
+ anything with bit0 == 0 is written to it. Guest is required to make sure
+ this structure is initialized to zero.
+
+ Fields have the following meanings:
+
+ version: a sequence counter. In other words, guest has to check
+ this field before and after grabbing time information and make
+ sure they are both equal and even. An odd version indicates an
+ in-progress update.
+
+ flags: At this point, always zero. May be used to indicate
+ changes in this structure in the future.
+
+ steal: the amount of time in which this vCPU did not run, in
+ nanoseconds. Time during which the vcpu is idle, will not be
+ reported as steal time.
+
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
index d6cd79b..65f8bb9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
*/
#define KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 3
#define KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF 4
+#define KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME 5
/* The last 8 bits are used to indicate how to interpret the flags field
* in pvclock structure. If no bits are set, all flags are ignored.
@@ -35,6 +36,14 @@
#define MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK_NEW 0x4b564d00
#define MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW 0x4b564d01
#define MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN 0x4b564d02
+#define MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME 0x4b564d03
+
+struct kvm_steal_time {
+ __u64 steal;
+ __u32 version;
+ __u32 flags;
+ __u32 pad[12];
+};
#define KVM_MAX_MMU_OP_BATCH 32
--
1.7.3.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-01 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 21:22 [PATCH v4 0/9] Steal time series again Glauber Costa
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] introduce kvm_read_guest_cached Glauber Costa
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] KVM-HDR Add constant to represent KVM MSRs enabled bit Glauber Costa
2011-07-01 21:22 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] KVM-HV: KVM Steal time implementation Glauber Costa
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] KVM-GST: Add a pv_ops stub for steal time Glauber Costa
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] add jump labels for ia64 paravirt Glauber Costa
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting Glauber Costa
2011-07-02 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power Glauber Costa
2011-07-02 10:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-03 13:20 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-02 10:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-01 21:22 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time registration Glauber Costa
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