linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 04/21] UAPI: x86: Move pvclock-abi to UAPI for x86 platforms

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 14:14:41 +0100
From: Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@...il.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Thomas Gleixner
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 04/21] UAPI: x86: Move pvclock-abi to UAPI for x86
 platforms

On 22/05/2024 01:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: Jack Allister <jalliste@...zon.com>
> 
> KVM provides a new interface for performing a fixup/correction of the KVM
> clock against the reference TSC. The KVM_[GS]ET_CLOCK_GUEST API requires a
> pvclock_vcpu_time_info, as such the caller must know about this definition.
> 
> Move the definition to the UAPI folder so that it is exported to usermode
> and also change the type definitions to use the standard for UAPI exports.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jack Allister <jalliste@...zon.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
> ---
>   arch/x86/include/{ => uapi}/asm/pvclock-abi.h | 24 +++++++++----------
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>   rename arch/x86/include/{ => uapi}/asm/pvclock-abi.h (83%)
> 

Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@....org>