Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add the code to send the consigned time from the host to the guest

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

On 02/05/2013 04:49 PM, Michael Wolf wrote:
> Change the paravirt calls that retrieve the steal-time information
> from the host.  Add to it getting the consigned value as well as
> the steal time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> index 06fdbd9..55d617f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> @@ -42,9 +42,10 @@
>
>   struct kvm_steal_time {
>   	__u64 steal;
> +	__u64 consigned;
>   	__u32 version;
>   	__u32 flags;
> -	__u32 pad[12];
> +	__u32 pad[10];
>   };

The function kvm_register_steal_time passes the address of such
a structure to the host kernel, which then does something with
it.

Could running a guest with the above patch, on top of a host
with the old code, result in the values for "version" and
"flags" being written into "consigned"?

Could that result in confusing the guest kernel to no end,
and generally breaking things?