Re: [PATCH v11 4/5] arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Fri Nov 20 2015 - 07:20:11 EST


On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:34:36PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 17/11/15 17:29, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 02:11:38PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> Ping?
> > >>
> > >> Catalin, Will,
> > >> are you happy with this change?
> > >
> > > I'm happy if Marc's happy. Marc?
> >
> > My Ack is already on the tin! ;-)
>
> Ah yes, I only saw the cc line. In which case, I assume Stefano will
> take this via the xen tree.

Unfortunately I am still missing Russell's ack on the arm patch (3/5).

Would you be OK if I dropped stolen time support for arm, only keeping
the arm64 part? The price to pay is two small ifdefs in arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c:

diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
index 15621b1..87e2fec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
#include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
#include <asm/arch_timer.h>
#include <asm/system_misc.h>
+#ifdef ARM64
#include <asm/paravirt.h>
+#endif
#include <linux/jump_label.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/irqreturn.h>
@@ -289,9 +291,10 @@ static int __init xen_guest_init(void)

register_cpu_notifier(&xen_cpu_notifier);

+#ifdef ARM64
pv_time_ops.steal_clock = xen_stolen_accounting;
static_key_slow_inc(&paravirt_steal_enabled);
-
+#endif
return 0;
}
early_initcall(xen_guest_init);
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