From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC -v7 PATCH 5/7] export pid symbols needed for kvm_vcpu_on_spin Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:45:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4D46BCFD.9010300@redhat.com> References: <20110126165657.2ddd2ac9@annuminas.surriel.com> <20110126172303.3d5184a7@annuminas.surriel.com> <1296474699.15234.396.camel@laptop> <4D46B88C.4000700@redhat.com> <1296481415.26581.13.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rik van Riel , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Mike Galbraith , Chris Wright , ttracy@redhat.com, "Nakajima, Jun" To: Peter Zijlstra Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1296481415.26581.13.camel@laptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 01/31/2011 03:43 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:26 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 01/31/2011 01:51 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 17:23 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > Export the symbols required for a race-free kvm_vcpu_on_spin. > > > > > > Avi, you asked for an example of why I hated KVM as a module :-) > > > > Why do you dislike exports so much? > > Because I hate modules [*], Well, you could have just said you hate KVM as a module because it is a module, and saved one indirection. > since we sadly cannot undo those, limiting > the module interface is all we've got, and KVM is one that pushes the > module interface further and further. > > Many people see an EXPORT as a acknowledgement that its OK to use the > interface, even when its not. > > [*] they enable the binary junk thing. Then we need to stop binary modules, not castrate modules as a whole. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function