Re: [PATCH RFC V2 5/5] kvm guest : pv-ticketlocks support forlinux guests running on KVM hypervisor

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Oct 24 2011 - 05:03:33 EST


On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 00:37 +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> This patch extends Linux guests running on KVM hypervisor to support
> pv-ticketlocks. Very early during bootup, paravirtualied KVM guest detects if
> the hypervisor has required feature (KVM_FEATURE_WAIT_FOR_KICK) to support
> pv-ticketlocks. If so, support for pv-ticketlocks is registered via pv_lock_ops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
> index 2874c19..c7f34b7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h
> @@ -195,10 +195,18 @@ void kvm_async_pf_task_wait(u32 token);
> void kvm_async_pf_task_wake(u32 token);
> u32 kvm_read_and_reset_pf_reason(void);
> extern void kvm_disable_steal_time(void);
> -#else
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
> +void __init kvm_guest_early_init(void);
> +#else /* CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS */
> +#define kvm_guest_early_init() do { } while (0)

This should be defined as an empty function.

--

Sasha.

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