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From: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:18:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C6AB78.1040301@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060112190845.GA13073@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:

> 
> Why not do the same thing that the Cell developers did for their
> "special syscalls"?  Or at the least, make it a "real" syscall like the
> ppc64 developers did.  It's not like there isn't a whole bunch of "prior
> art" in the kernel today that you should be ignoring.

A hypercall syscall would be good in a lot of ways. For x86/x86_64 there 
are multiple hypervisors so we would need to make the syscall general 
enough to support more than one hypervisor.

Mike
-- 

Mike D. Day
STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
ncmike@us.ibm.com

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From: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:18:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C6AB78.1040301@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060112190845.GA13073@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:

> 
> Why not do the same thing that the Cell developers did for their
> "special syscalls"?  Or at the least, make it a "real" syscall like the
> ppc64 developers did.  It's not like there isn't a whole bunch of "prior
> art" in the kernel today that you should be ignoring.

A hypercall syscall would be good in a lot of ways. For x86/x86_64 there 
are multiple hypervisors so we would need to make the syscall general 
enough to support more than one hypervisor.

Mike
-- 

Mike D. Day
STSM and Architect, Open Virtualization
IBM Linux Technology Center
ncmike@us.ibm.com

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-12 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-11 17:17 [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes Mike D. Day
2006-01-11 17:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 17:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-01-11 18:45 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-11 18:45   ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-11 23:07 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12  0:23   ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12  0:23     ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12  0:57     ` Greg KH
2006-01-12  1:49       ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12  1:49         ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12  2:17         ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
2006-01-12  7:10         ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 14:44           ` [Xen-devel] " Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 14:44             ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 14:53             ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
2006-01-12 15:42               ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 15:57             ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 15:57               ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 17:34               ` [Xen-devel] " Greg KH
2006-01-12 18:44                 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 17:43             ` Greg KH
2006-01-12  9:10         ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12  9:10           ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 14:52           ` [Xen-devel] " Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 15:28             ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:28               ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:50               ` [Xen-devel] " Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 15:50                 ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 12:54         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-12 12:54           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-12 13:21           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-12 14:42             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-12 17:39               ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 18:53                 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 18:55                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-12 18:59                     ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 18:59                       ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 19:11                       ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 19:11                         ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 19:31                         ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 19:08                   ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 19:18                     ` Mike D. Day [this message]
2006-01-12 19:18                       ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 19:30                       ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 17:38           ` Greg KH
2006-01-12  1:32     ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12  1:32       ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 10:04       ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2006-01-12 10:04         ` Keir Fraser
2006-01-12 15:14         ` [Xen-devel] " Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:14           ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:06           ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
2006-01-12 15:06             ` Mark Williamson
2006-01-12 15:26           ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2006-01-12 15:37             ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:37               ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:49               ` [Xen-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 15:49                 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-11 23:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-12 19:01   ` Greg KH

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