From: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, hollisb@us.ibm.com,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, avi@qumranet.com
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] include files for kvmclock
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:16:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DC8211684B62Btakebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11943875433821-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com>
Hi, Glauber
This is interesting facility. :-)
>+#define KVM_HCALL_REGISTER_CLOCK 1
>+
>+union kvm_hv_clock {
>+ struct {
>+ u64 tsc_mult;
>+ u64 now_ns;
>+ /* That's the wall clock, not the water closet */
>+ u64 wc_sec;
>+ u64 wc_nsec;
>+ u64 last_tsc;
>+ /* At first, we could use the tsc value as a marker, but Jeremy
>+ * well noted that it will cause us locking problems in 32-bit
>+ * sys, so we have a special version field */
>+ u32 version;
>+ };
>+ char page_align[PAGE_SIZE];
>+};
>+
Why does kvm_hv_clock need page_align?
And also the kvm_hv_clock is alloced with kvm_vcpu,
so the align is not enough, isn't it?
I thik __atribute__((__aligne__(PAGE_SIZE)))) is better than it.
Best Regards,
Akio Takebe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 22:18 KVM paravirt clocksource - Take 3 out of <put your number here> Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-06 22:18 ` include files for kvmclock Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-06 21:35 ` [kvm-devel] " Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-07 5:55 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-07 5:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-07 12:49 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-06 22:18 ` kvmclock - the host part Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-06 22:18 ` kvmclock implementation, the guest part Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-07 5:50 ` kvmclock - the host part Avi Kivity
2007-11-07 13:08 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-07 13:59 ` Avi Kivity
2007-11-06 22:50 ` include files for kvmclock Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-06 22:58 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-07 8:16 ` Akio Takebe [this message]
2007-11-07 13:16 ` [kvm-devel] " Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-11-07 13:27 ` Akio Takebe
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