This patchset provides a file descriptor for every VM and VCPU to read KVM statistics data in binary format. It is meant to provide a lightweight, flexible, scalable and efficient lock-free solution for user space telemetry applications to pull the statistics data periodically for large scale systems. The pulling frequency could be as high as a few times per second. In this patchset, every statistics data are treated to have some attributes as below: * architecture dependent or common * VM statistics data or VCPU statistics data * type: cumulative, instantaneous, * unit: none for simple counter, nanosecond, microsecond, millisecond, second, Byte, KiByte, MiByte, GiByte. Clock Cycles Since no lock/synchronization is used, the consistency between all the statistics data is not guaranteed. That means not all statistics data are read out at the exact same time, since the statistics date are still being updated by KVM subsystems while they are read out.
Jing Zhang (4): KVM: stats: Separate common stats from architecture specific ones KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data KVM: stats: Add documentation for statistics data binary interface KVM: selftests: Add selftest for KVM statistics data binary interface
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 169 ++++++++ arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +- arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 42 +- arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +- arch/mips/kvm/mips.c | 67 +++- arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c | 68 +++- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 12 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_pr_papr.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c | 63 ++- arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +- arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 133 ++++++- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 71 +++- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 132 ++++++- include/linux/kvm_types.h | 12 + include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 48 +++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 3 + .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h | 3 + .../selftests/kvm/kvm_bin_form_stats.c | 370 ++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 11 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 237 ++++++++++- 24 files changed, 1401 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/kvm_bin_form_stats.c
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