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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:27:58 +0000 From: "Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China)" <Jianyong.Wu@....com> To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "yangbo.lu@....com" <yangbo.lu@....com>, "john.stultz@...aro.org" <john.stultz@...aro.org>, "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>, "sean.j.christopherson@...el.com" <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>, "maz@...nel.org" <maz@...nel.org>, "richardcochran@...il.com" <richardcochran@...il.com>, Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>, Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>, Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com> CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@....com>, "Kaly Xin (Arm Technology China)" <Kaly.Xin@....com>, "Justin He (Arm Technology China)" <Justin.He@....com>, nd <nd@....com>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] psci: Add hvc call service for ptp_kvm. Hi Paolo, > -----Original Message----- > From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:20 PM > To: Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China) <Jianyong.Wu@....com>; > netdev@...r.kernel.org; yangbo.lu@....com; john.stultz@...aro.org; > tglx@...utronix.de; sean.j.christopherson@...el.com; maz@...nel.org; > richardcochran@...il.com; Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>; Will > Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>; Suzuki Poulose > <Suzuki.Poulose@....com> > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; kvm@...r.kernel.org; Steve Capper > <Steve.Capper@....com>; Kaly Xin (Arm Technology China) > <Kaly.Xin@....com>; Justin He (Arm Technology China) > <Justin.He@....com>; nd <nd@....com>; linux-arm- > kernel@...ts.infradead.org > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] psci: Add hvc call service for ptp_kvm. > > On 23/09/19 06:57, Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China) wrote: > >> On 19/09/19 11:46, Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China) wrote: > >>>> On 18/09/19 11:57, Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China) wrote: > >>>>> Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >>>>>> This is not Y2038-safe. Please use ktime_get_real_ts64 instead, > >>>>>> and split the 64-bit seconds value between val[0] and val[1]. > >>> > >>> Val[] should be long not u32 I think, so in arm64 I can avoid that > >>> Y2038_safe, but also need rewrite for arm32. > >> > >> I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with u32 val[], and > >> as you notice it lets you reuse code between arm and arm64. It's up > >> to you and Marc to decide. > >> > > To compatible 32-bit, Integrates second value and nanosecond value as > > a nanosecond value then split it into val[0] and val[1] and split cycle value > into val[2] and val[3], In this way, time will overflow at Y2262. > > WDYT? > > So if I understand correctly you'd multiply by 10^9 (or better shift by > 30) the nanoseconds. > Yeah, > That works, but why not provide 5 output registers? Alternatively, take an > address as input and write there. It will be easy, if I could have expanded the store room. But these code is the infrastructure for hypercall, I can't change them at my will. I think only value but pointer can delivered by smccc_set_retval call. > > Finally, on x86 we added an argument for the CLOCK_* that is being read > (currently only CLOCK_REALTIME, but having room for extensibility in the API > is always nice). > IMO, I will be limited by the design of hypercall on arm64, I can only design my code under it. maybe it will be better sometime but for now I could just obey it. Thanks Jianyong Wu > Paolo
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