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Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single
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On 03/22/2010 09:22 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> Transitive had a product that was using a KVM context to run their
>> binary translator which allowed them full access to the host
>> processes virtual address space range.  In this case, there is no
>> kernel and there are no devices.
>>      
> And your point is that such vcpus should be excluded from profiling just
> because they fall outside the Qemu/libvirt umbrella?
>
> That is a ridiculous position.
>
>    

Non-guest vcpus will not be able to provide Linux-style symbols.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.