From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752112AbZIVTro (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:47:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751873AbZIVTrn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:47:43 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:45021 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751073AbZIVTrn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:47:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB929DC.60002@goop.org> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:47:40 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akataria@vmware.com CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. References: <1253233028.19731.63.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090919224430.GB9567@kroah.com> <1253419185.3253.21.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> <1253647845.10565.20.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <1253647845.10565.20.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.97a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/22/09 12:30, Alok Kataria wrote: > We can certainly look at removing some paravirt-hooks which are only > used by VMI. Not sure if there are any but will take a look when we > actually remove VMI. > There are a couple: * pte_update_defer * alloc_pmd_clone lguest appears to still use pte_update(), but I suspect its two callsites could be recast in the form of other existing pvops. J From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:47:40 -0700 Message-ID: <4AB929DC.60002@goop.org> References: <1253233028.19731.63.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090919224430.GB9567@kroah.com> <1253419185.3253.21.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> <1253647845.10565.20.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1253647845.10565.20.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: akataria@vmware.com Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Rusty Russell List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On 09/22/09 12:30, Alok Kataria wrote: > We can certainly look at removing some paravirt-hooks which are only > used by VMI. Not sure if there are any but will take a look when we > actually remove VMI. > There are a couple: * pte_update_defer * alloc_pmd_clone lguest appears to still use pte_update(), but I suspect its two callsites could be recast in the form of other existing pvops. J