[PATCH v4 3/4] arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
Christopher Covington
cov at codeaurora.org
Wed May 29 14:09:23 EDT 2013
Hi Stefano,
On 05/28/2013 01:54 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING on 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 at eu.citrix.com>
> CC: linux at arm.linux.org.uk
> CC: will.deacon at arm.com
> CC: nico at linaro.org
> CC: marc.zyngier at arm.com
> CC: cov at codeaurora.org
> CC: arnd at arndb.de
> CC: olof at lixom.net
>
> Changes in v3:
> - improve commit description and Kconfig help text;
> - no need to initialize pv_time_ops;
> - add PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING.
Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Christopher Covington <cov at codeaurora.org>
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