On 28.08.2020 18:36, Paul Durrant wrote:
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>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>> Sent: 28 August 2020 16:53
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>> Grall' <jul...@xen.org>; 'Stefano Stabellini' <sstabell...@kernel.org>;
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>> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH v7 8/9] x86/time: add a domain context record
>> for tsc_info...
>>
>> On 28.08.2020 13:08, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>>>> Sent: 26 August 2020 15:03
>>>> To: Paul Durrant <p...@xen.org>
>>>> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Durrant, Paul <pdurr...@amazon.co.uk>;
>>>> Ian Jackson
>>>> <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>; Wei Liu <w...@xen.org>; Andrew Cooper
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>> George
>>>> Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>; Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org>; Stefano
>>>> Stabellini
>>>> <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
>>>> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH v7 8/9] x86/time: add a domain context
>>>> record for tsc_info...
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>>>> On 18.08.2020 12:30, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>>>> --- a/xen/include/public/save.h
>>>>> +++ b/xen/include/public/save.h
>>>>> @@ -93,7 +93,18 @@ struct domain_shared_info_context {
>>>>>
>>>>> DECLARE_DOMAIN_SAVE_TYPE(SHARED_INFO, 2, struct
>>>>> domain_shared_info_context);
>>>>>
>>>>> -#define DOMAIN_SAVE_CODE_MAX 2
>>>>> +#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
>>>>> +struct domain_tsc_info_context {
>>>>> + uint32_t mode;
>>>>> + uint32_t incarnation;
>>>>> + uint64_t elapsed_nsec;
>>>>> + uint32_t khz;
>>>>> +};
>>>>
>>>> sizeof() for this struct varies between 32-bit and 64-bit - is
>>>> this not a problem? (alignof() varies too, but there I think
>>>> it's indeed not a problem, albeit it could still be taken care
>>>> of by using uint64_aligned_t, alongside the addition of an
>>>> explicit padding field).
>>>
>>> I don't think it should matter because domain context records have
>>> implicit padding to align up to the next 64-bit boundary,
>>
>> Could you remind me where this is written down and enforced?
>>
>
> With the series fully applied, see xen/include/public/save.h
> line 62-68 for the comment and then see domain_save_end() in
> xen/common/save.c for where the padding is applied.
Ah, yes, this helped find the places in the patches. Therefore with
the stray blank line addition removed from tools/misc/xen-domctx.c
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Jan
