[PATCH v5 0/4] xen/arm: CONFIG_PARAVIRT and stolen ticks accounting

[Stefano Stabellini]

Hi all,
this patch series introduces stolen ticks accounting for Xen on ARM.
Stolen ticks are clocksource ticks that have been "stolen" from the cpu,
typically because Linux is running in a virtual machine and the vcpu has
been descheduled.
To account for these ticks we introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT and pv_time_ops
so that we can make use of:

kernel/sched/cputime.c:steal_account_process_tick


I am starting to be pretty confident about this patch series.

Please advice on what tree I should use to get this stuff upstream: most
of the changes are Xen specific, but it also contains few generic ARM
changes (the introduction of CONFIG_PARAVIRT and paravirt.c on ARM) and
a couple of lines in kernel/sched/cputime.c (a missing include).



Stefano Stabellini (4):
      xen: move xen_setup_runstate_info and get_runstate_snapshot to drivers/xen/time.c
      kernel: missing include in cputime.c
      arm: introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT, PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING and pv_time_ops
      xen/arm: account for stolen ticks

 arch/arm/Kconfig                |   20 +++++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/paravirt.h |   19 ++++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/Makefile        |    1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/paravirt.c      |   25 +++++++++++
 arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c        |   21 +++++++++
 arch/ia64/xen/time.c            |   48 +++------------------
 arch/x86/xen/time.c             |   76 +--------------------------------
 drivers/xen/Makefile            |    2 +-
 drivers/xen/time.c              |   91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/xen/xen-ops.h           |    5 ++
 kernel/sched/cputime.c          |    4 +-
 11 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/paravirt.h
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/paravirt.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/xen/time.c


git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sstabellini/xen.git lost_ticks_5

Cheers,

Stefano