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Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:
> 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 check if it supports the
> PVCLOCK_TSC_STABLE_BIT flag which is mandatory for having
> vdso/vsyscall support. And if so, it will set the cpu 0 pvti that
> will be later on used when mapping the vdso image.
>
> The xen headers are also updated to include the new hypercall for
> registering the secondary vcpu_time_info struct.

No objections from me assuming the code is correct.

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[PATCH v1 0/3] x86/xen: pvclock vdso support Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> - 2017-01-25 18:40 +0100
  [PATCH v1 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> - 2017-01-25 18:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-01-25 20:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> - 2017-01-26 14:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] x86/xen/time: setup vcpu 0 time info page Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-01-26 18:20 +0100
  [PATCH v1 3/3] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> - 2017-01-25 18:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-01-26 18:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> - 2017-01-26 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] MAINTAINERS: xen, kvm: track pvclock-abi.h changes Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-01-27 16:00 +0100
  [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> - 2017-01-25 18:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-01-26 18:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> - 2017-01-26 21:00 +0100

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