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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-kmod] adjust timekeeping compatibility code
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:48:39 +0200
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On 2014-09-30 10:43, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 30/09/2014 09:54, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>>> kvm_get_xtime_nsec could overflow.  If we make kvm_get_boot_base_ns
>>>> compute the equivalent of 3.17's base_mono+offs_boot formula (instead of
>>>> just offs_boot), we can avoid that and drop kvm_get_xtime_nsec altogether.
>> Applied, thanks.
>>
>> Any suggestions how to deal with "kvm: Fix page ageing bugs"?
> 
> If you mean the new MMU notifier API, probably something like this:
> 
> diff --git a/sync b/sync
> index 8b63ca7..fff85f3 100755
> --- a/sync
> +++ b/sync
> @@ -310,6 +310,22 @@ def hack_content(fname, data):
>              else:
>                  w(sub(r'tkr\.', '', line))
>              line = '#endif'
> +        if match_block_end('^static int kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young', '^}'):
> +            w(line)
> +            w('#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,18,0)')
> +            w('static int kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(struct mmu_notifier *mn,')
> +            w('                                              struct mm_struct *mm,')
> +            w('                                              unsigned long hva)')
> +            w('{')
> +            w('\treturn __kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(mn, mm, hva, hva+1);')

Ah, end=start+1, it's that easy!

> +            w('}')
> +            line = '#endif'
> +        if match(r'^static int kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young'):
> +            w('#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,18,0)')
> +            w(line)
> +            w('#else')
> +            w(sub('kvm_', '__kvm_', line))
> +            line = '#endif'
>          if line == '#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC':
>              line = '#if defined(CONFIG_KEXEC) && LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,8,0)'
>          if line == '\tif (!cpu_has_vmx_apicv())':
> 
> (Not tested beyond compilation).

Will check.

Thanks,
Jan

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