Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTINGand pv_time_ops

From: Christopher Covington
Date: Wed May 29 2013 - 14:15:55 EST


Hi Stefano,

On 05/28/2013 01:54 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING on ARM.
>
> The only paravirt interface supported is pv_time_ops.steal_clock, so no
> runtime pvops patching needed.
>
> This allows us to make use of steal_account_process_tick for stolen
> ticks accounting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: will.deacon@xxxxxxx
> CC: nico@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx
> CC: cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: arnd@xxxxxxxx
> CC: olof@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Changes in v3:
> - improve commit description and Kconfig help text;
> - no need to initialize pv_time_ops;
> - add PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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