From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:24:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061130142435.GA13372@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061127123606.GA11825@elte.hu>
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:36:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
>
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
>
> please move this from drivers/kvm/ to kernel/kvm/ [or even into a
> toplevel kvm/ directory] - KVM is not a "driver", KVM enhances the core
> Linux kernel with hypervisor functionality.
Actually it's exactly a driver. It's a character driver that exposes
the virtualization features of modern x86 hardware. Pretty similar to
things like the msr or mtrr driver that expose cpu features as character
drivers aswell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-27 12:10 [PATCH 0/38] KVM: Decouple Intel VT implementation from base kvm Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:11 ` [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 14:24 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-11-30 15:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-30 20:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-30 20:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-30 20:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-27 12:12 ` [PATCH 2/38] KVM: Make /dev/registration happen when the arch specific module is loaded Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:13 ` [PATCH 0/38] KVM: Decouple Intel VT implementation from base kvm Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:13 ` [PATCH 3/38] KV: Make hardware detection an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:14 ` [PATCH 4/38] KVM: Make the per-cpu enable/disable functions arch operations Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:15 ` [PATCH 5/38] KVM: Make the hardware setup operations (non-percpu) " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:16 ` [PATCH 6/38] KVM: Make the guest debugger an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:17 ` [PATCH 7/38] KVM: Make msr accessors arch operations Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:18 ` [PATCH 8/38] KVM: Make the segment " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 9/38] KVM: Cache guest cr4 in vcpu structure Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:20 ` [PATCH 10/38] KVM: Cache guest cr0 " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:21 ` [PATCH 11/38] KVM: Add get_segment_base() arch accessor Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:22 ` [PATCH 12/38] KVM: Add idt and gdt descriptor accessors Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:23 ` [PATCH 13/38] KVM: Make syncing the register file to the vcpu structure an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:24 ` [PATCH 14/38] KVM: Make the vcpu execution loop " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:25 ` [PATCH 15/38] KVM: Move the vmx exit handlers to vmx.c Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:26 ` [PATCH 16/38] KVM: Make vcpu_setup() an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:27 ` [PATCH 17/38] KVM: Make __set_cr0() (and dependencies) arch operations Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:28 ` [PATCH 18/38] KVM: Make __set_cr4() an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:29 ` [PATCH 19/38] KVM: Make __set_efer() " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 13:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-27 13:46 ` Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:30 ` [PATCH 20/38] KVM: Make set_cr3() and tlb flushing arch operations Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 21/38] KVM: Make inject_page_fault() an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:32 ` [PATCH 22/38] KVM: Make inject_gp() " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:33 ` [PATCH 23/38] KVM: Use the idt and gdt accessors in realmode emulation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:34 ` [PATCH 24/38] KVM: Use the general purpose register accessors rather than direct access Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:35 ` [PATCH 25/38] KVM: Move the vmx tsc accessors to vmx.c Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:36 ` [PATCH 26/38] KVM: Access rflags through an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:37 ` [PATCH 27/38] KVM: Move the vmx segment field definitions to vmx.c Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:38 ` [PATCH 28/38] KVM: Add an arch accessor for cs d/b and l bits Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:39 ` [PATCH 29/38] KVM: Add a set_cr0_no_modeswitch() arch accessor Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:40 ` [PATCH 30/38] KVM: Make vcpu_load() and vcpu_put() arch operations Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:41 ` [PATCH 31/38] KVM: Make vcpu creation and destruction " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:42 ` [PATCH 32/38] KVM: Move vmcs static variables to vmx.c Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:43 ` [PATCH 33/38] KVM: Make is_long_mode() an arch operation Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:44 ` [PATCH 34/38] KVM: Use the tlb flush arch operation instead of an inline Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:45 ` [PATCH 35/38] KVM: Remove guest_cpl() Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:46 ` [PATCH 36/38] KVM: Move vmcs accessors to vmx.c Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:47 ` [PATCH 37/38] KVM: Move vmx helper inlines " Avi Kivity
2006-11-27 12:48 ` [PATCH 38/38] KVM: Remove vmx includes from arch independent code Avi Kivity
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