From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D088C4332D for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FA620658 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=alien8.de header.i=@alien8.de header.b="jRZ4w7iR" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727046AbgCTU70 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:59:26 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:37872 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726951AbgCTU7Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:59:25 -0400 Received: from zn.tnic (p200300EC2F0A5A0095ADC0D452E3E28B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ec:2f0a:5a00:95ad:c0d4:52e3:e28b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 1043D1EC0570; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:59:22 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1584737962; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=8iI8IWPehZ1KW+x62OpAlz0HlN2gIEWJg2Hn2mzEzMA=; b=jRZ4w7iRJ1EiRXuIFuvaqqn9IbV3+wN+Q1T2vSEeDASwPUcW7/HiNd7GqP/3xfZa37ol+a kzD/Mi/5tK1eAWsYKFVeIu5C44Cp8X/ZtfqbmOWUX4chL2kEJHfSR0oq+Fgiw9+ENQ8DJC JyFt3DzmdDeh6DuYrhferPDmppBdrwA= Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:59:29 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Alexey Makhalov Cc: linux-x86_64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H . Peter Anvin" , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Josh Poimboeuf , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Pawan Gupta , Juergen Gross Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/vmware: Steal time accounting support Message-ID: <20200320205929.GH23532@zn.tnic> References: <20200320203443.27742-1-amakhalov@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200320203443.27742-1-amakhalov@vmware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:34:38PM +0000, Alexey Makhalov wrote: > Hello, > > This patchset introduces steal time accounting support for > the VMware guest. The idea and implementation of guest > steal time support is similar to KVM ones and it is based > on steal clock. The steal clock is a per CPU structure in > a shared memory between hypervisor and guest, initialized > by each CPU through hypercall. Steal clock is got updated > by the hypervisor and read by the guest. ... > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 227 +++++++++++++++++++++++- > 2 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Did you not see my reply to you the last time? https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=158410546921328 -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette