kvm: stats: tell userspace which values are boolean
Some of the statistics values exported by KVM are always only 0 or 1. It can be useful to export this fact to userspace so that it can track them specially (for example by polling the value every now and then to compute a % of time spent in a specific state). Therefore, add "boolean value" as a new "unit". While it is not exactly a unit, it walks and quacks like one. In particular, using the type would be wrong because boolean values could be instantaneous or peak values (e.g. "is the rmap allocated?") or even two-bucket histograms (e.g. "number of posted vs. non-posted interrupt injections"). Suggested-by: Amneesh Singh <natto@weirdnatto.in> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@@ -2083,6 +2083,7 @@ struct kvm_stats_header {
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#define KVM_STATS_UNIT_BYTES (0x1 << KVM_STATS_UNIT_SHIFT)
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#define KVM_STATS_UNIT_SECONDS (0x2 << KVM_STATS_UNIT_SHIFT)
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#define KVM_STATS_UNIT_CYCLES (0x3 << KVM_STATS_UNIT_SHIFT)
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#define KVM_STATS_UNIT_BOOLEAN (0x4 << KVM_STATS_UNIT_SHIFT)
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#define KVM_STATS_UNIT_MAX KVM_STATS_UNIT_CYCLES
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#define KVM_STATS_BASE_SHIFT 8
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