Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

From: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:36:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254245814.7803.37.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC24396.4080402@zytor.com>

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:27 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/29/2009 10:25 AM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
> > index 31e6f6c..d430e4c 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
> > @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ static inline int __init activate_vmi(void)
> >  
> >  	pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1;
> >  	pv_info.kernel_rpl = kernel_cs & SEGMENT_RPL_MASK;
> > -	pv_info.name = "vmi";
> > +	pv_info.name = "vmi [deprecated]";
> >  
> >  	pv_init_ops.patch = vmi_patch;
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
> Where is this string used, and could this break something?

It is used by default_banner in "arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c", IMO this
just prints some info for users, shouldn't break anything. 

Alok
> 
> 	-hpa
> 