From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akataria@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:39:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090317093919.GD6477@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237281581.7907.2.camel@ht.satnam>
* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: move vmware to hypervisor
>
> Impact: cleanup
>
> vmware is only required by hypervisor and having only two functions
> by moving these two functions to hypervisor we get rid of 2 vmware files
>
> Added support for CONFIG_X86_HYPERVISOR
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 12 ++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 34 ++++++++++-
> arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h | 27 ---------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c | 112 -------------------------------------
> 6 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
I dont really like this one. KVM is a hypervisor too, and so is
Xen and lguest. VMware is one of the many types of a
hypervisors.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-17 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-17 9:19 [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-17 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-17 9:48 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-17 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-25 5:29 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-25 12:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-25 16:52 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-25 17:07 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-25 17:24 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-25 17:38 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-25 18:18 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-26 7:10 ` david
2009-03-26 16:40 ` Alok Kataria
2009-03-27 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-25 13:38 ` Mark Lord
2009-03-17 17:28 ` Alok Kataria
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