Re: [PATCH v8 4/6] arm64: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTINGand pv_time_ops

From: Christopher Covington
Date: Wed Jan 08 2014 - 14:13:26 EST


Hi Stefano,

On 01/08/2014 01:49 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING on ARM64.
> Necessary duplication of paravirt.h and paravirt.c with ARM.
>
> The only paravirt interface supported is pv_time_ops.steal_clock, so no
> runtime pvops patching needed.
>
> This allows us to make use of steal_account_process_tick for stolen
> ticks accounting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: will.deacon@xxxxxxx
> CC: nico@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx
> CC: cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: arnd@xxxxxxxx
> CC: olof@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: Catalin.Marinas@xxxxxxx

Looks good to me.

Acked-by Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

While I don't think it should necessarily gate these changes, I wonder if at
some point the config options could be consolidated across the various
architectures using them.

Regards,
Christopher

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