Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 10/10] arm64: Retrieve stolen time as paravirtualized guest | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:55:50 +0100 | From | Marc Zyngier <> |
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On 2019-10-21 06:01, Jürgen Groß wrote: > On 19.10.19 22:28, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> How about something like pv_time_init() instead? In the guest, this >> is >> no way KVM specific, and I still hope for this to work on things >> like >> Xen/HyperV/VMware (yeah, I'm foolishly optimistic). All the >> references >> to KVM should go, and be replaced by something more generic (after >> all, you're only implementing the spec, so feel free to call it >> den0057_* if you really want). > > Xen guests already have the needed functionality. On ARM this just > needs > to be hooked up.
Yes, Xen offers its own PV interface for that. But this code is about implementing support for a cross hypervisor functionnality (which AFAICT is not implemented by Xen).
M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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