From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: re-writing on powerpc
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:40:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D072D99.10002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FD1A71B048BD854792EE753E0E9F27DE80A7@az33exm20>
On 12/13/2010 09:03 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> >
> > The interface is a lot simpler. The guest decides what to patch and
> > where to jump. A "please patch me" flag needs a ton of documentation on
> > what patch means and what the constraints on the guest environment are.
> >
>
> The constraints need to be documented, but I think "a ton" is a bit of
> an exaggeration
I guess. It's correct for x86 (which has four processor modes, and you
need to consider segmentation, etc.), perhaps not so much for powerpc.
> -- and having the guest do the patching itself means
> that the structure of the shared page must become stable ABI.
It has to be a stable ABI in any case so you can live migrate. Unless
you want the hypervisor to unpatch or something.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-14 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 4:45 re-writing on powerpc Yoder Stuart-B08248
2010-12-13 8:35 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-13 8:42 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-13 8:45 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-13 17:12 ` Hollis Blanchard
2010-12-13 17:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-13 17:17 ` Hollis Blanchard
2010-12-13 19:03 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-13 23:54 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-14 0:18 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-14 0:24 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-14 8:40 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-12-14 8:42 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-14 8:48 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-14 9:08 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-14 15:45 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
2010-12-14 15:48 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-14 16:55 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-14 17:48 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-14 17:53 ` Hollis Blanchard
2010-12-14 18:37 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-14 18:41 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-14 20:04 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-14 23:00 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-14 23:17 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-14 23:29 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-15 0:00 ` Scott Wood
2010-12-15 0:13 ` Alexander Graf
2010-12-15 0:57 ` Andreas Färber
2010-12-15 9:48 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-15 11:16 ` Sethi Varun-B16395
2010-12-15 11:18 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-15 11:32 ` Sethi Varun-B16395
2010-12-15 12:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-17 21:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-12-17 22:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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