From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH]KVM: kvm/ia64: select ANON_INODES PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS, once Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:39:24 +0300 Message-ID: <48B2B60C.7070101@qumranet.com> References: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC01845A71@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <48B27544.7090004@qumranet.com> <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC01845F38@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <48B2862E.6060607@qumranet.com> <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC0188E570@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Zhang, Xiantao" Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:12291 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753763AbYHYNj0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:39:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC0188E570@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Zhang, Xiantao wrote: > But if users don't configure it @ building kernel, they can't exercise > kvm unless re-configure and re-build the host kernel. Generally, we > should allow users to build kvm in the form of modules, and insert to > host kernels without other dependcies. BTW, we often meet such fails > and have to do rebuild. :( If users don't configure networking, they can't compile any drivers. Sorry, that's how the kernel works. btw, on x86 we manage to run even without preempt notifiers, but a lot of pain is involved. In practice, I don't expect a problem. Most users get their kernels from a distribution. You should talk to ia64 distribution vendors to make sure they enable kvm in their ia64 2.6.26+ kernels. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function