On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Glauber Costa wrote:

> To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information
> about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM.
> This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse
> we decided not to make.
> 
> In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that
> holds the memory area address containing information about steal time
> 
> This patch contains the hypervisor part for it. I am keeping it separate from
> the headers to facilitate backports to people who wants to backport the kernel
> part but not the hypervisor, or the other way around.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
> CC: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> CC: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
> CC: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]>
> CC: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>

Tested-by: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>

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