[PATCH v5 9/9] Documentation: virtual: kvm: Support vcpu preempted check

Boqun Feng
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:23:48 -0000

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 05:27:54PM -0400, Pan Xinhui
wrote:
> Commit ("x86, kvm: support vcpu preempted check") add one field
"__u8
> preempted" into struct kvm_steal_time. This field tells if one vcpu is
> running or not.
>
> It is zero if 1) some old KVM deos not support this filed. 2) the vcpu is
> preempted. Other values means the vcpu has been preempted.
  ^^^^^^^^^
s/preempted/not preempted

And better to fix other typos in the commit log ;-)
Maybe you can try aspell? That works for me.

Regards,
Boqun

>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> index 2a71c8f..3376f13 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> @@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03
>  		__u64 steal;
>  		__u32 version;
>  		__u32 flags;
> -		__u32 pad[12];
> +		__u8  preempted;
> +		__u32 pad[11];
>  	}
>
>  	whose data will be filled in by the hypervisor periodically. Only one
> @@ -232,6 +233,11 @@ MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME: 0x4b564d03
>  		nanoseconds. Time during which the vcpu is idle, will not be
>  		reported as steal time.
>
> +		preempted: indicate the VCPU who owns this struct is running or
> +		not. Non-zero values mean the VCPU has been preempted. Zero
> +		means the VCPU is not preempted. NOTE, it is always zero if the
> +		the hypervisor doesn't support this field.
> +
>  MSR_KVM_EOI_EN: 0x4b564d04
>  	data: Bit 0 is 1 when PV end of interrupt is enabled on the vcpu; 0
>  	when disabled.  Bit 1 is reserved and must be zero.  When PV end of
> --
> 2.4.11
>
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