Thread (43 messages) 43 messages, 5 authors, 2024-07-29

Re: [PATCH] ptp: Add vDSO-style vmclock support

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2024-07-26 12:52:27
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-rtc, lkml, qemu-devel, virtualization

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 09:35:51AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
But for this use case, we only need a memory region that the hypervisor
can update. We don't need any of that complexity of gratuitously
interrupting all the vCPUs just to ensure that none of them can be
running userspace while one of them does an update for itself,
potentially translating from one ABI to another. The hypervisor can
just update the user-visible memory in place.
Looks like then your userspace is hypervisor specific, and that's a
problem because it's a one way street - there is no way for hypervisor
to know what does userspace need, so no way for hypervisor to know which
information to provide. No real way to fix bugs.

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MST
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