Re: [PATCH 0/4 V13] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stopped byhost

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Tue Feb 14 2012 - 11:13:11 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:50:13AM -0500, Eric B Munson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:29:31AM -0500, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > When a guest kernel is stopped by the host hypervisor it can look like a soft
> > > > lockup to the guest kernel. This false warning can mask later soft lockup
> > > > warnings which may be real. This patch series adds a method for a host
> > > > hypervisor to communicate to a guest kernel that it is being stopped. The
> > > > final patch in the series has the watchdog check this flag when it goes to
> > > > issue a soft lockup warning and skip the warning if the guest knows it was
> > > > stopped.
> > > >
> > > > It was attempted to solve this in Qemu, but the side effects of saving and
> > > > restoring the clock and tsc for each vcpu put the wall clock of the guest behind
> > > > by the amount of time of the pause. This forces a guest to have ntp running
> > > > in order to keep the wall clock accurate.
> > >
> > > Avi,
> > >
> > > Is this set fit for merging or is there something else you want changed?
> >
> > Eric,
> >
> > On Message-ID: <20120210160536.GA23363@xxxxxxxx>, i asked:
> >
> > How is the stub getting included for other architectures again?
> >
>
> Marcelo,
>
> Sorry, I put out V13 to answer that. There is a stub in asm-generic that was
> lost in the V11-V12 rebase. This stub has be included in the V13 set.
>
> Eric

Eric,

I know the stub has been included in the series. But i am asking how
it is #include'ed for other architectures? (can't see that).


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