linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/vmware: Steal time accounting support

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Message-ID: <A9A30A6C-F5C3-45ED-8225-07EFF4F6E8E4@vmware.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:06:57 +0000
From:   Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@...are.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:     "linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/vmware: Steal time accounting support

Hi Borislav,

I didn't receive any response first time. I'm not on the list.
Thanks for reporting i386 issue. I'll address it in v2.

Regards,
--Alexey

On 3/20/20, 1:59 PM, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

    On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:34:38PM +0000, Alexey Makhalov wrote:
    > Hello,
    > 
    > This patchset introduces steal time accounting support for
    > the VMware guest. The idea and implementation of guest
    > steal time support is similar to KVM ones and it is based
    > on steal clock. The steal clock is a per CPU structure in
    > a shared memory between hypervisor and guest, initialized
    > by each CPU through hypercall. Steal clock is got updated
    > by the hypervisor and read by the guest. 
    
    ...
    
    >  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |   2 +-
    >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c                    | 227 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
    >  2 files changed, 220 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
    
    Did you not see my reply to you the last time?
    
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    Regards/Gruss,
        Boris.
    
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