Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page

2016-01-05 Thread Joao Martins
On 01/04/2016 09:34 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 01/04/2016 03:41 PM, Joao Martins wrote: >> >> On 01/04/2016 04:07 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: >>> On 12/28/2015 04:52 PM, Joao Martins wrote: >>> + + size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)); + mem = memblock

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page

2016-01-04 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 01/04/2016 03:41 PM, Joao Martins wrote: On 01/04/2016 04:07 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: On 12/28/2015 04:52 PM, Joao Martins wrote: + + size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info)); + mem = memblock_alloc(size, PAGE_SIZE); + if (!mem) + retur

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page

2016-01-04 Thread Joao Martins
On 01/04/2016 04:07 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 12/28/2015 04:52 PM, Joao Martins wrote: >> + >> +static int xen_setup_vsyscall_time_info(int cpu) >> +{ >> +struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *ti; >> +struct vcpu_register_time_memory_area t; >> +struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *pvti;

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page

2016-01-04 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 12/28/2015 04:52 PM, Joao Martins wrote: + +static int xen_setup_vsyscall_time_info(int cpu) +{ + struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *ti; + struct vcpu_register_time_memory_area t; + struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *pvti; + unsigned long mem; + int ret, size; +

[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page

2015-12-28 Thread Joao Martins
In order to support pvclock vdso on xen we need to setup the time info page for vcpu 0 and register the page with Xen using the VCPUOP_register_vcpu_time_memory_area hypercall. This hypercall will also forcefully update the pvti which will set some of the necessary flags for vdso. Afterwards we che