From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754630Ab0EGXSs (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 19:18:48 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60049 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751757Ab0EGXSq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 May 2010 19:18:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4BE49FB6.9060206@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 16:18:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Ky Srinivasan , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Hank Janssen , Thomas Gleixner , Alok Kataria Subject: Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer References: <4BE49778.6060800@zytor.com> <20100507230210.GB24877@kroah.com> <4BE49D76.5000001@zytor.com> <20100507231202.GA13771@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100507231202.GA13771@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/07/2010 04:12 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:08:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 05/07/2010 04:02 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>>> This patch implements a cleaned up hypervisor layer, plus cleans up some >>>> of the aspects of both Hank's MS-HyperV patch and the existing VMware >>>> driver. In particular, the MS-HyperV information is private >>>> information, per system, not per CPU, and can thus simply be stored in >>>> an ordinary global variable. This also turns the hypervisor detection >>>> into an information structure instead of just an identifier. >>> >>> This looks great to me, thanks for doing this work. >>> >>> As this is a diff on top of my previous patch, do you want me to merge >>> it in with it and resend it, or will you? >>> >> >> I was planning to put this on top of your patch as a second commit, just >> to preserve history and authorship. > > Wonderful. > > Ah, I just realized that we cut-and-pasted the GPL lines from the vmware > file, I don't want the "v2 or later" marking on the new file KY added. > Want me to send an add-on patch to fix that up? > Yes please. -hpa