From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:36:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4BA76443.7030104@redhat.com> References: <20100321191742.GD25922@elte.hu> <4BA67B2F.4030101@redhat.com> <20100321200849.GA51323@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <4BA67D75.8060809@redhat.com> <4BA67F12.6030501@nagafix.co.uk> <4BA68063.2050800@redhat.com> <4BA68234.1060804@nagafix.co.uk> <4BA68997.60406@redhat.com> <20100321212009.GE30194@elte.hu> <4BA70F9A.8030304@redhat.com> <20100322114824.GF3483@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Antoine Martin , Olivier Galibert , Anthony Liguori , Pekka Enberg , "Zhang, Yanmin" , Peter Zijlstra , Sheng Yang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti , oerg Roedel , Jes Sorensen , Gleb Natapov , Zachary Amsden , ziteng.huang@intel.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Fr?d?ric Weisbecker To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100322114824.GF3483@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 03/22/2010 01:48 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Avi Kivity wrote: > > >>> My 10+ years experience with kernel instrumentation solutions is that >>> kernel-driven, self-sufficient, robust, trustable, well-enumerated sources >>> of information work far better in practice. >>> >> What about line number information? And the source? Into the kernel with >> them as well? >> > Sigh. Please read the _very first_ suggestion i made, which solves all that. I > rarely go into discussions without suggesting technical solutions - i'm not > interested in flaming, i'm interested in real solutions. > > Here it is, repeated for the Nth time: > > Allow a guest to (optionally) integrate its VFS namespace with the host side > as well. An example scheme would be: > > /guests/Fedora-G1/ > [...] You're missing something. This sub-thread is about someone launching a kernel with 'qemu -kernel', the kernel lives outside the guest disk image, they don't want a custom initrd because it's hard to make. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function