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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Do not register kvmclock savevm section
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Marcelo Tosatti |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Do not register kvmclock savevm section if kvmclock is disabled. |
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Mon, 6 Dec 2010 19:55:58 -0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) |
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:04:01PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:03:46AM -0500, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > Usually nobody usually thinks about that scenario (me included and
> > specially),
> > but kvmclock can be actually disabled in the host.
> >
> > It happens in two scenarios:
> > 1. host too old.
> > 2. we passed -kvmclock to our -cpu parameter.
> >
> > In both cases, we should not register kvmclock savevm section. This patch
> > achives that by registering this section only if kvmclock is actually
> > currently enabled in cpuid.
> >
> > The only caveat is that we have to register the savevm section a little bit
> > later, since we won't know the final kvmclock state before cpuid gets
> > parsed.
>
> What is the problem of registering the section? Restoring the value if
> the host does not support it returns an error?
>
> Can't you ignore the error if kvmclock is not reported in cpuid, in the
> restore handler?
>
> Also, please generate against uq/master.
Sorry, this is not upstream yet, so ignore the uq/master part.
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] make kvmclock value idempotent for stopped machine, Glauber Costa, 2010/12/06
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] savevm odness related to kvmclock, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/12/06