linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0

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Message-ID: <fb896697-8f78-d7d1-ca52-4fdb22f3ac6c@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:40:15 +0100
From:   Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        Juergen Gross <JGross@...e.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va

On 10/17/2017 04:34 PM, Joao Martins wrote:
> On 10/03/2017 12:55 PM, Joao Martins wrote:
>> Right now there is only a pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va() which is defined
>> on kvmclock since:
>>
>> commit dac16fba6fc5
>> ("x86/vdso: Get pvclock data from the vvar VMA instead of the fixmap")
>>
>> The only user of this interface so far is kvm. This commit adds a
>> setter function for the pvti page and moves pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va
>> to pvclock, which is a more generic place to have it; and would
>> allow other PV clocksources to use it, such as Xen.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>
>> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> 
> Ping?
> 
> While the rest of series has been acked, I think that this patch (per
> maintainers file) still misses x86 and (or?) kvm ack/review.

I found out an issue with ptp_kvm modinit (if attempted to be loaded) under Xen
related to this series, so I resent with that fixed. Hopefully things can be
taken from there - Sorry for the noise.

Thanks,
Joao