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Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com> writes: > Why not use existing seqlock's? > To be honest I don't quite understand how we could use it -- the sequence locking here is done against the page updated by the hypersior, we're not creating new structures (so I don't understand how we could use struct seqcount which we don't have) but I may be misunderstanding something. BTW, I just occured to me that I should've probably put the TSC reading code to mshyperv.h and use it from both vDSO and read_hv_...

Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com> writes: > Why not use existing seqlock's? > To be honest I don't quite understand how we could use it -- the sequence locking here is done against the page updated by the hypersior, we're not creating new structures (so I don't understand how we could use struct seqcount which we don't have) but I may be misunderstanding something. BTW, I just occured to me that I should've probably put the TSC reading code to mshyperv.h and use it from both vDSO and read_hv_...

...ly Kuznetsov wrote: > Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com> writes: > > > Why not use existing seqlock's? > > > > To be honest I don't quite understand how we could use it -- the > sequence locking here is done against the page updated by the > hypersior, we're not creating new structures (so I don't understand how > we could use struct seqcount which we don't have) but I may be > misunderstanding something. You can't use seqlock, but you might be able to use seqcount. Though I doubt it given the 0 check .... Thanks, tglx

...Virtualization support * iso : debian-12.10.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso * VM config CPU : Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI enabled * install XEN on Debian 12 - * $ apt install xen-hypervisor * $ reboot * boot loop on the new added GRUD entries * Debian GNU/Linux, with Xen Hypersior => boot loop * Advanced options for Bebian GNU/Linux (with Xen Hypervisor) => boot loop Analysis: * Regression introduced by https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=6bdb965178bbb3fc50cd4418d4770a7789956e2c * Regression fixed by https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen....

...Kuznetsov wrote: > Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com> writes: > > > Why not use existing seqlock's? > > > > To be honest I don't quite understand how we could use it -- the > sequence locking here is done against the page updated by the > hypersior, we're not creating new structures (so I don't understand > how we could use struct seqcount which we don't have) but I may be > misunderstanding something. You can't use seqlock, but you might be able to use seqcount. Though I doubt it given the 0 check .... Thanks, tgl...

...Kuznetsov wrote: > Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com> writes: > > > Why not use existing seqlock's? > > > > To be honest I don't quite understand how we could use it -- the > sequence locking here is done against the page updated by the > hypersior, we're not creating new structures (so I don't understand > how we could use struct seqcount which we don't have) but I may be > misunderstanding something. You can't use seqlock, but you might be able to use seqcount. Though I doubt it given the 0 check .... Thanks, tgl...

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > +#ifdef CONFIG_HYPERV_TSCPAGE > +static notrace u64 vread_hvclock(int *mode) > +{ > + const struct ms_hyperv_tsc_page *tsc_pg = > + (const struct ms_hyperv_tsc_page *)&hvclock_page; > + u64 sequence, scale, offset, current_tick, cur_tsc; > + > + while (1) { > + sequence = READ_ONCE(tsc_pg->tsc_sequence); > + if

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > +#ifdef CONFIG_HYPERV_TSCPAGE > +static notrace u64 vread_hvclock(int *mode) > +{ > + const struct ms_hyperv_tsc_page *tsc_pg = > + (const struct ms_hyperv_tsc_page *)&hvclock_page; > + u64 sequence, scale, offset, current_tick, cur_tsc; > + > + while (1) { > + sequence = READ_ONCE(tsc_pg->tsc_sequence); > + if

Hi list readers, I am an experienced developer with only nominal configuration talent. These days, mostly I use ubuntu linux, but have used Debian, WhiteBox, CentOS, RH, Fedora. I have been using Sun VirtualBox to very great effect and hope for better performance by installing and using xen. I also intend to use Dom0 exclusively as a host, and not install any other packages. Instead, I expect to