Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data

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Hi Paolo,

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:42 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 03/06/21 23:14, Jing Zhang wrote:
> > +struct _kvm_stats_header {
> > +     __u32 name_size;
> > +     __u32 count;
> > +     __u32 desc_offset;
> > +     __u32 data_offset;
> > +};
> > +
>
> Keeping this struct in sync with kvm_stats_header is a bit messy.  If
> you move the id at the end of the header, however, you can use the same
> trick with the zero-sized array that you used for _kvm_stats_desc.
>
Good point. Will do.
> > +struct kvm_vm_stats_data {
> > +     unsigned long value[0];
> > +};
> > +
>
> I posted the patch to switch the VM statistics to 64-bit; you can rebase
> on top of it.
Cool!
>
> > +#define KVM_GET_STATS_FD  _IOR(KVMIO,  0xcc, struct kvm_stats_header)
>
> This should be _IO(KVMIO, 0xcc) since it does not have an argument.
>
Will correct it.
> > +#define STATS_DESC(stat, type, unit, scale, exp)                            \
> > +     {                                                                      \
> > +             {                                                              \
> > +                     .flags = type | unit | scale,                          \
> > +                     .exponent = exp,                                       \
> > +                     .size = 1                                              \
> > +             },                                                             \
> > +             .name = stat,                                                  \
>
> Here you can use
>
>         type | BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(type & ~KVM_STATS_TYPE_MASK) |
>         unit | BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(unit & ~KVM_STATS_UNIT_MASK) |
>         scale | BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(scale & ~KVM_STATS_SCALE_MASK) |
>
> to get a little bit of type checking.
Sure, will do.
>
> Paolo
>

Thanks,
Jing



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