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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/6] hypertrace: Add guest-side Linux
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

Stefan Hajnoczi writes:

> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 09:35:10PM +0100, Llu=C3=ADs Vilanova wrote:
>> Provides guest Linux kernel module "qemu-hypertrace.ko" to abstract
>> access to the hypertrace channel.
>>=20
>> Signed-off-by: Llu=C3=ADs Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
>> ---
>> Makefile                                           |    4 -
>> configure                                          |    4 +
>> hypertrace/guest/linux-module/Kbuild.in            |    7 +
>> hypertrace/guest/linux-module/Makefile             |   23 +++
>> .../include/linux/qemu-hypertrace-internal.h       |   46 ++++++
>> .../linux-module/include/linux/qemu-hypertrace.h   |   73 ++++++++++
>> hypertrace/guest/linux-module/qemu-hypertrace.c    |  149 ++++++++++++++=
++++++
>> 7 files changed, 305 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> create mode 100644 hypertrace/guest/linux-module/Kbuild.in
>> create mode 100644 hypertrace/guest/linux-module/Makefile
>> create mode 100644 hypertrace/guest/linux-module/include/linux/qemu-hype=
rtrace-internal.h
>> create mode 100644 hypertrace/guest/linux-module/include/linux/qemu-hype=
rtrace.h
>> create mode 100644 hypertrace/guest/linux-module/qemu-hypertrace.c

> This should be submitted to Linux, the module cannot live in the QEMU
> tree (we don't carry out-of-tree kernel modules).

I thought it made sense to have it here, the same way we have the user-mode
guest library. If not, I will split it into a separate repo and point at it=
 from
the documentation file. Once the rest is merged into QEMU, I can post the k=
ernel
module repo to the linux list.

Thanks,
  LLuis