From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] expose kvmclock upper msr set.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:30:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6BA377.8070305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6BA35E.6060504@redhat.com>
On 02/28/2011 03:30 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 03:24 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 14:16 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> > On 02/23/2011 07:44 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>> > > We've been supporting kvmclock MSRs in the 0x4b564d00-0x4b564dff
>> range
>> > > for a while now, but we're not exposing it yet, meaning nobody
>> is using it.
>> > > This simple patch takes care of that.
>> >
>> > We're exposing them via KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID, leaf
>> KVM_CPUID_FEATURES.
>> >
>> Our userspace does not really use it, and rely on the capability list.
>> Historically, we've been relying on the capabilities mechanism to
>> indicate what exists and what does not.
>
> Yes. I believe this bit marked the change point.
>
> Anyway, it's exposed, and it's a lot better for userspace to make use
> of KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID since it will work on more kernels.
>
btw, it should work with -cpu host as well, no?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-28 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 17:44 [PATCH] expose kvmclock upper msr set Glauber Costa
2011-02-24 23:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-24 23:48 ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-24 23:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-02-25 13:11 ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-27 9:29 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-27 12:16 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-28 13:24 ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-28 13:30 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-28 13:30 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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