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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] Describe KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:14:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D492E9C.9040000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296575680.5081.14.camel@mothafucka.localdomain>

On 02/01/2011 05:54 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> >
> >  The guest must initialize the entire 64-byte structure to zero before
> >  enabling the feature.
>
> I honestly don't see why. But I also don't see why not...
> Will update it.

Requiring the guest to initialize it to zero allows us to later assign 
meanings to various fields, as long as a zero value is backwards compatible.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-28 19:52 [PATCH v2 0/6] KVM Steal time, new submission Glauber Costa
2011-01-28 19:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM-HDR: KVM Steal time implementation Glauber Costa
2011-01-29  1:28   ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-28 19:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM-HV: " Glauber Costa
2011-01-29  1:46   ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-30 13:13   ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-01 15:48     ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-01 17:09       ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-01 19:58         ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-02 10:09           ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-31 11:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-28 19:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time accounting Glauber Costa
2011-01-29  1:16   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-01-29  1:27     ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-29  1:53   ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-30 14:04   ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-30 16:45     ` lidong chen
2011-02-01 15:58       ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-01 15:57     ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-02 10:11       ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-02 10:51         ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-02 11:57           ` Glauber Costa
2011-01-28 19:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM-GST: KVM Steal time registration Glauber Costa
2011-01-29  2:16   ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-30 13:16   ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-01 15:53     ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-01 16:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-01 17:00         ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-01 17:44           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-01 20:20             ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2011-01-31 11:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-28 19:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM-GST: adjust scheduler cpu power Glauber Costa
2011-01-31 11:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-31 11:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-01 15:59     ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-01 16:19       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-01 16:22         ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-01 18:59           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-01 19:55             ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-01 20:04               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-28 19:52 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Describe KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME Glauber Costa
2011-01-30 13:19   ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-01 15:54     ` Glauber Costa
2011-02-02 10:14       ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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