From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: kvm-kmod and kernels 3.11.* Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:36:07 +0100 Message-ID: <52AB2967.8000207@siemens.com> References: <20131212212713.GA14762@ERROL.INI.CMU.EDU> <52AA31A8.4010806@redhat.com> <52AB21F2.1030005@siemens.com> <52AB23DF.2000509@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Gabriel L. Somlo" , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Paolo Bonzini Return-path: Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:31889 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751571Ab3LMPgM (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:36:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <52AB23DF.2000509@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2013-12-13 16:12, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 13/12/2013 16:04, Jan Kiszka ha scritto: >> Yes, kvm-kmod is starting to bitrot. I just noticed I messed up the last >> stable release back in August, and no one seems to have noticed it. >> There were no complains about the missing releases for 3.11 and 3.12, so >> it the relevance must have dropped significantly. > > I think the relevance of releases is ~zero. kvm-kmod still remains > extremely useful IMHO as a hacking tool. Exactly. > >> kvm-kmod is still useful for hacking, so I'm considering to stop >> providing releases (except for a final 3.10.21), just updates in git to >> allow wrapping of latest kvm head on recent kernels. > > Yes, git can be good enough for distribution. > >> There are breakages >> with kernels < 3.0 now, about which I personally do not care anymore, so >> lifting the entrance level to 3.0 seems reasonable. > > Agreed on this as well. Personally I would be fine even with only 3-4 > releases backwards compatibility (e.g. 3.8) right now. > >>>> For completeness, here is the patch I am using right now. >> Is there anything in your patch that is still required with current >> kvm-kmod next? Then I would be happy about a patch! > > Your next branch works for me. The only difference between my patch and > your origin/next is that I'm copying > > %(linux)s/arch/%(arch)s/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h' > > and you have > > + > +#ifndef MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC_PREEMPTION_TIMER_SCALE > +#define MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC_PREEMPTION_TIMER_SCALE 0x1F > +#endif Indeed, will change this. Thanks! Jan > > Everything else is roughly the same. Thanks for maintaining kvm-kmod! > > Paolo > -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux