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author | Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> | 2011-07-11 15:28:13 -0400 |
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committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2011-07-12 13:17:03 +0300 |
commit | 9ddabbe72e41ca6794cb4947c70929c9410e6752 (patch) | |
tree | c1b4b5dc3f326fcac560211283a65bb626277e7c | |
parent | 4b6b35f55ca81d3bfdec63b0adb61798702ceb2e (diff) | |
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KVM: KVM Steal time guest/host interface
To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information
about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM.
This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse
we decided not to make.
In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that
holds the memory area address containing information about steal time
This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate
backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the
hypervisor, or the other way around.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 34 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 9 |
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt index d079aed27e03..50317809113d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt @@ -185,3 +185,37 @@ MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02 Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that. + +MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03 + + data: 64-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be + in guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0. This memory is expected to + hold a copy of the following structure: + + struct kvm_steal_time { + __u64 steal; + __u32 version; + __u32 flags; + __u32 pad[12]; + } + + whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor periodically. Only one + write, or registration, is needed for each VCPU. The interval between + updates of this structure is arbitrary and implementation-dependent. + The hypervisor may update this structure at any time it sees fit until + anything with bit0 == 0 is written to it. Guest is required to make sure + this structure is initialized to zero. + + Fields have the following meanings: + + version: a sequence counter. In other words, guest has to check + this field before and after grabbing time information and make + sure they are both equal and even. An odd version indicates an + in-progress update. + + flags: At this point, always zero. May be used to indicate + changes in this structure in the future. + + steal: the amount of time in which this vCPU did not run, in + nanoseconds. Time during which the vcpu is idle, will not be + reported as steal time. diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h index d6cd79b34aab..65f8bb9279e0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ */ #define KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 3 #define KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF 4 +#define KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME 5 /* The last 8 bits are used to indicate how to interpret the flags field * in pvclock structure. If no bits are set, all flags are ignored. @@ -35,6 +36,14 @@ #define MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK_NEW 0x4b564d00 #define MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME_NEW 0x4b564d01 #define MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN 0x4b564d02 +#define MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME 0x4b564d03 + +struct kvm_steal_time { + __u64 steal; + __u32 version; + __u32 flags; + __u32 pad[12]; +}; #define KVM_MAX_MMU_OP_BATCH 32 |