Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 09:28:23 EST


On 02/11/2011 08:19 PM, 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.


diff --git a/include/linux/kvm.h b/include/linux/kvm.h
index ea2dc1a..233374a 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm.h
@@ -541,6 +541,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_pvinfo {
#define KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_PVINFO 57
#define KVM_CAP_PPC_IRQ_LEVEL 58
#define KVM_CAP_ASYNC_PF 59
+#define KVM_CAP_STEAL_TIME 60

#ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING


This isn't related to the guest/host interface and should come with the hypervisor patch.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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