From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:32:51 +1100 Message-ID: <1162423971.6848.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20061029024504.760769000@sous-sol.org> <20061029024607.401333000@sous-sol.org> <200610290831.21062.ak@suse.de> <1162178936.9802.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061030231132.GA98768@muc.de> <1162376827.23462.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1162377928.23744.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1162377928.23744.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andi Kleen , Andi Kleen , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Chris Wright , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 21:27 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need > > to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of > > defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. > this is a lot of infrastructure... do we have more than 1 user of this > yet that wants to get merged in mainline? Yep. Xen and VMI both have patches on top of this pending merge. I also have a toy hypervisor "lhype" based on this, but it's not ready for mainline. (It seems people expect consoles to do *input* as well as output). Cheers, Rusty.