From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:06:40 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1711081203590.1937@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3957335-f093-9d64-7f82-f4dc97c38268@oracle.com>
On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Joao Martins wrote:
> On 11/06/2017 04:09 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 19/10/2017 15:39, Joao Martins wrote:
> >> Right now there is only a pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va() which is defined
> >> on kvmclock since:
> >>
> >> commit dac16fba6fc5
> >> ("x86/vdso: Get pvclock data from the vvar VMA instead of the fixmap")
> >>
> >> The only user of this interface so far is kvm. This commit adds a
> >> setter function for the pvti page and moves pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va
> >> to pvclock, which is a more generic place to have it; and would
> >> allow other PV clocksources to use it, such as Xen.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
> >> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> >
> > Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >
> > IOW, the Xen folks are free to pick up the whole series. :)
> >
> Thank you!
>
> I guess only x86 maintainers Ack is left - any comments?
The only nit-pick I have are the convoluted function names:
pvclock_set_pvti_cpu0_va() pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va()
What on earth does that mean?
Aside of that can you please make it at least symetric, i.e. _set_ and
_get_ ?
Other than that:
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-19 13:39 [PATCH v7 0/5] x86/xen: pvclock vdso support Joao Martins
2017-10-19 13:39 ` [PATCH v7 1/5] ptp_kvm: probe for kvm guest availability Joao Martins
2017-10-20 14:33 ` Radim Krcmar
2017-10-19 13:39 ` [PATCH v7 2/5] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va Joao Martins
2017-11-06 16:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-11-07 19:29 ` Joao Martins
2017-11-08 11:06 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-11-08 13:01 ` Joao Martins
2017-11-08 13:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-10-19 13:39 ` [PATCH v7 3/5] x86/xen/time: set pvclock flags on xen_time_init() Joao Martins
2017-10-19 13:39 ` [PATCH v7 4/5] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page Joao Martins
2017-10-19 13:39 ` [PATCH v7 5/5] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes Joao Martins
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