Re: [PATCH RFC V4 4/5] kvm : pv-ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 01/14/2012 08:26 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> Extends Linux guest running on KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks. 
>
> During smp_boot_cpus  paravirtualied KVM guest detects if the hypervisor has
> required feature (KVM_FEATURE_PVLOCK_KICK) to support pv-ticketlocks. If so,
>  support for pv-ticketlocks is registered via pv_lock_ops.
>
> Use KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall to wakeup waiting/halted vcpu.
> +
> +	debugfs_create_u8("zero_stats", 0644, d_spin_debug, &zero_stats);
> +
> +	debugfs_create_u32("taken_slow", 0444, d_spin_debug,
> +		   &spinlock_stats.contention_stats[TAKEN_SLOW]);
> +	debugfs_create_u32("taken_slow_pickup", 0444, d_spin_debug,
> +		   &spinlock_stats.contention_stats[TAKEN_SLOW_PICKUP]);
> +
> +	debugfs_create_u32("released_slow", 0444, d_spin_debug,
> +		   &spinlock_stats.contention_stats[RELEASED_SLOW]);
> +	debugfs_create_u32("released_slow_kicked", 0444, d_spin_debug,
> +		   &spinlock_stats.contention_stats[RELEASED_SLOW_KICKED]);
> +
> +	debugfs_create_u64("time_blocked", 0444, d_spin_debug,
> +			   &spinlock_stats.time_blocked);
> +
> +	debugfs_create_u32_array("histo_blocked", 0444, d_spin_debug,
> +		     spinlock_stats.histo_spin_blocked, HISTO_BUCKETS + 1);
> +
>

Please drop all of these and replace with tracepoints in the appropriate
spots.  Everything else (including the historgram) can be reconstructed
the tracepoints in userspace.

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