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Commit 30b5c851 authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/xen: Add support for vCPU runstate information



This is how Xen guests do steal time accounting. The hypervisor records
the amount of time spent in each of running/runnable/blocked/offline
states.

In the Xen accounting, a vCPU is still in state RUNSTATE_running while
in Xen for a hypercall or I/O trap, etc. Only if Xen explicitly schedules
does the state become RUNSTATE_blocked. In KVM this means that even when
the vCPU exits the kvm_run loop, the state remains RUNSTATE_running.

The VMM can explicitly set the vCPU to RUNSTATE_blocked by using the
KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_CURRENT attribute, and can also use
KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_ADJUST to retrospectively add a given
amount of time to the blocked state and subtract it from the running
state.

The state_entry_time corresponds to get_kvmclock_ns() at the time the
vCPU entered the current state, and the total times of all four states
should always add up to state_entry_time.

Co-developed-by: default avatarJoao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20210301125309.874953-2-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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