Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va

From: Joao Martins
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 09:41:12 EST


On 10/17/2017 04:34 PM, Joao Martins wrote:
> On 10/03/2017 12:55 PM, 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ping?
>
> While the rest of series has been acked, I think that this patch (per
> maintainers file) still misses x86 and (or?) kvm ack/review.

I found out an issue with ptp_kvm modinit (if attempted to be loaded) under Xen
related to this series, so I resent with that fixed. Hopefully things can be
taken from there - Sorry for the noise.

Thanks,
Joao