On 01/28/2011 09:52 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
This patch adds documentation about usage of the newly
introduced KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME.
+
+MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03
+
+ data: 4-byte alignment physical address of a memory area which must be
+ in guest RAM, plus an enable bit in bit 0.
64-byte aligned:
- avoids wrapping around a page boundary, which may let us optimize
things later on (see kvm_write_guest_cached()).
- gives us 5 more unused bits to enable more options
This memory is expected to
+ hold a copy of the following structure:
+
+ struct kvm_steal_time {
+ __u64 steal;
+ __u32 version;
+ __u32 flags;
+ __u32 pad[6];
+ }
+
+ whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor periodically. Only one
+ write, or registration, is needed for each VCPU. The interval between
+ updates of this structure is arbitrary and implementation-dependent.
+ The hypervisor may update this structure at any time it sees fit until
+ anything with bit0 == 0 is written to it.
+
+ Fields have the following meanings:
+
+ version: guest has to check version before and after grabbing
+ time information and check that they are both equal and even.
+ An odd version indicates an in-progress update.
+
+ flags: At this point, always zero. May be used to indicate
+ changes in this structure in the future.
+
+ steal: the amount of time in which this vCPU did not run, in
+ nanoseconds.
+
The guest must initialize the entire 64-byte structure to zero before
enabling the feature.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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