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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM on VMI
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:57:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48746F83.2020702@suse.de> (raw)

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Hi,

I more or less accidently stumbled across a problem when compiling KVM 
on the VMI-enabled kernel. Even though that's pretty much useless right 
now, I think there might be a day, VMware will emulate VM extensions, in 
VMs, so we should probably not keep KVM from running under VMI.

The problem is that usually load_ldt is #defined, while in VMI it's a 
static void function. This clashes with the way KVM detects if load_ldt 
is defined already. To circumvent this, I just extended the check so 
we're not redefining load_ldt when VMI is activated.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>



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--- kernel/include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h	2008-07-09 08:02:20.000000000 +0000
+++ kernel/include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h	2008-07-09 08:02:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@
 	asm("mov %0, %%gs" : : "rm"(sel));
 }
 
-#ifndef load_ldt
+#if !(defined(load_ldt) || defined(CONFIG_X86_VMI))
 static inline void load_ldt(u16 sel)
 {
 	asm("lldt %0" : : "rm"(sel));

             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09  7:57 Alexander Graf [this message]
2008-07-10 13:55 ` [PATCH] KVM on VMI Avi Kivity

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