Re: [PATCH 3/3] QEMU kvm/i386 : Adding KICK_VCPU capability support in i386 target.

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On 12/19/2011 03:54 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 04.12.2011, at 19:26, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>
> > Extend the KVM Hypervisor to enable KICK_VCPU feature that allows
> > a vcpu to kick the halted vcpu to continue with execution in PV ticket
> > spinlock.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
> > index 5bfc21f..69bce21 100644
> > --- a/target-i386/kvm.c
> > +++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
> > @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ struct kvm_para_features {
> >     { KVM_CAP_NOP_IO_DELAY, KVM_FEATURE_NOP_IO_DELAY },
> >     { KVM_CAP_PV_MMU, KVM_FEATURE_MMU_OP },
> >     { KVM_CAP_ASYNC_PF, KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF },
> > +    { KVM_CAP_KICK_VCPU, KVM_FEATURE_KICK_VCPU },
>
> So this is handled in the kernel? Who enables the feature? Is it always on? Why bother with it in user space at all then?

Backwards compatibility

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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