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Message-ID: <1352858437.18025.47.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:00:37 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@...achi.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	David Sharp <dhsharp@...gle.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] kvm/vmx: Output TSC offset

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:36 +0900, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote:

> To merge the data like previous pattern, we apply this patch set. Then, we can
> get TSC offset of the guest as follows:
> 
> $ dmesg | grep kvm
> [   57.717180] kvm: (2687) write TSC offset 18446743360465545001, now clock ##
>                      ^^^^                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^            |
>                      PID                         TSC offset                 |
>                                                            HOST TSC value --+	
> 

Using printk to export something like this is IMO a nasty hack.

Can't we create a /sys or /proc file to export the same thing?

-- Steve


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