Re: [patch 5/5] PTP: add kvm PTP driver

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Fri Jan 20 2017 - 08:14:55 EST


On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 01:58:33PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 20/01/2017 13:20, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > + ret = kvm_hypercall2(KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING,
> > + clock_off_gpa,
> > + KVM_CLOCK_PAIRING_WALLCLOCK);
> > + if (ret != 0) {
> > + pr_err("clock offset hypercall ret %lu\n", ret);
> > + spin_unlock(&kvm_ptp_lock);
> > + preempt_enable_notrace();
> > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > + }
> > +
>
> Is it worth making this hypercall, or even all of ptp_kvm_get_time_fn, a
> pv_ops entry?

Well, i don't know how Xen is going to implement this. Maybe you can,
when you have more low level implementations to be able to generalize.

> But this looks good already, apart from my different preference on
> emulate_ptp_sys_offset_mean.

Sending v4 with the direct export of kvm clocksource.

Thanks!