Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] xen/arm: account for stolen ticks | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Thu, 9 May 2013 09:12:01 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 18:03 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > What if we have Xen support enabled but don't run as a Xen guest? > > That's fine as long as the Xen runstate_memory_area interface is > available. > Usually I am a great fun of feature flags, so that every feature can be > dynamically enabled or disabled and an hypervisor interface can be only > partially implemented. > > However the runstate_memory_area is very old and I would consider it > one of the core interfaces that need to be available in order to claim > "Xen compatibility".
I think Marc meant "what if CONFIG_XEN=y but we are running on KVM?". In that case we wont have set either of the paravirt_steal*_enabled static keys and so the hook won't be called.
> > > + static_key_slow_inc(¶virt_steal_enabled); > > > + static_key_slow_inc(¶virt_steal_rq_enabled); > > > +
Ian.
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