Re: [PATCH v11 3/5] arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops

From: Christopher Covington
Date: Fri Nov 20 2015 - 09:36:13 EST


Hi Stefano,

On 11/20/2015 09:31 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> Introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING on 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: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> CC: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> CC: will.deacon@xxxxxxx
>>> CC: nico@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> CC: marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx
>>> CC: cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> CC: arnd@xxxxxxxx
>>> CC: olof@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> Russell,
>> are you OK with this patch?
>
> Russell,
>
> I am going to drop this patch and add a small #ifdef to
> arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c to be able to use this functionality on arm64.
>
> If you change your mind let me know.

It appears to me as though he's not copied on this message.

Regards,
Christopher Covington

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