On Wed, 29 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 headers for it. I am keeping it separate 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 <glom...@redhat.com>
> CC: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardi...@citrix.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> CC: Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>
> CC: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com>
> CC: Eric B Munson <emun...@mgebm.net>

Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emun...@mgebm.net>

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