On 03/03/2015 01:24 PM, Wei, Jiangang/魏 建刚 wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 09:57 +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
>> On 03/03/2015 09:35 AM, Wei,Jiangang wrote:
>>> KVM guest is on top of QEMU, and KVM is used by QEMU to
>>> provide hardware-accelerated virtualization.
>>> Although there is an association between them,
>>> difference is very obvious.
>>>
>>> The function named is_kvm() is only can be applied to
>>> determine QEMU, which couldn't distinguish QEMU and QEMU-KVM.
>>> In other words,
>>> Its' name doesn't match its' content and function.
>>> so is_qemu() more reasonable.
>>
>> NACK, KVM is the name in the same stand of Xen, while qemu
>> is just a client program. You are making wrong sense to others.
> wrong sense?
> I'm not sure of what you want to say.
> do you explain it more clearly?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> In my opinion,
> QEMU should be in the same level of Xen, not KVM.
> Xen-HVM and KVM are in the same level.
>
> I had talk about it with the author of this function by maillist.
> He said "I'm not against renaming VIRT_KVM to VIRT_QEMU as it would be
> technically more correct".
OK, since this problem is now raised, I'll send a patch to refactor the
current VIRT detect code, please review my patch.
Thanks,
Wanlong Gao
>
> Thanks,
> wei
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wanlong Gao
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wei,Jiangang <weijg.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>> ---
>>> include/test.h | 2 +-
>>> lib/tst_virt.c | 6 +++---
>>> testcases/kernel/syscalls/getrusage/getrusage04.c | 2 +-
>>> 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/test.h b/include/test.h
>>> index f45bb36..12f913b 100644
>>> --- a/include/test.h
>>> +++ b/include/test.h
>>> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
>>>
>>> /* virt types for tst_is_virt() */
>>> #define VIRT_XEN 1 /* xen dom0/domU */
>>> -#define VIRT_KVM 2 /* only default virtual CPU */
>>> +#define VIRT_QEMU 2 /* only default virtual CPU */
>>>
>>> /*
>>> * Ensure that NUMSIGS is defined.
>>> diff --git a/lib/tst_virt.c b/lib/tst_virt.c
>>> index 87f73dc..d0d701e 100644
>>> --- a/lib/tst_virt.c
>>> +++ b/lib/tst_virt.c
>>> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>>> #include "test.h"
>>> #include "safe_macros.h"
>>>
>>> -static int is_kvm(void)
>>> +static int is_qemu(void)
>>> {
>>> FILE *cpuinfo;
>>> char line[64];
>>> @@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ int tst_is_virt(int virt_type)
>>> switch (virt_type) {
>>> case VIRT_XEN:
>>> return is_xen();
>>> - case VIRT_KVM:
>>> - return is_kvm();
>>> + case VIRT_QEMU:
>>> + return is_qemu();
>>> }
>>> tst_brkm(TBROK, NULL, "invalid virt_type flag: %d", virt_type);
>>> }
>>> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/getrusage/getrusage04.c
>>> b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/getrusage/getrusage04.c
>>> index c2f34f4..f34f0c1 100644
>>> --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/getrusage/getrusage04.c
>>> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/getrusage/getrusage04.c
>>> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static void setup(void)
>>> {
>>> tst_sig(NOFORK, DEF_HANDLER, cleanup);
>>>
>>> - if (tst_is_virt(VIRT_XEN) || tst_is_virt(VIRT_KVM))
>>> + if (tst_is_virt(VIRT_XEN) || tst_is_virt(VIRT_QEMU))
>>> tst_brkm(TCONF, NULL, "This testcase is not supported on this"
>>> " virtual machine.");
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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