From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753573AbYAVTsW (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:48:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751858AbYAVTsO (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:48:14 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:42595 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751841AbYAVTsN (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:48:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:47:10 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Eduardo Pereira Habkost , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, glommer@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, avi@qumranet.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, ak@suse.de, chrisw@sous-sol.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, hpa@zytor.com, zach@vmware.com, roland@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] paravirt_ops-64 compile fixes Message-ID: <20080122194710.GC3218@elte.hu> References: <1200952133-31581-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com> <20080122120207.GA30271@elte.hu> <20080122123450.GU7338@blackpad> <47962E1D.2090308@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47962E1D.2090308@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> Maybe should this force-paravirt mode be a kernel debugging option? > > No, just a plain CONFIG_PARAVIRT to turn it on and off independently > of everything else. it should be a debugging option in the way that it's dependent on KERNEL_DEBUG and KERNEL_EXPERIMENTAL. i dont think you shold worry about this - i think 64-bit guest support for specific hypervisors could be added even after the merge window, if it's reasonably isolated (which i'd expect it to be). It clearly cannot break anything else so it's the same category as new driver or new hardware support - more relaxed integration rules. Then we can remove the KERNEL_DEBUG and KERNEL_EXPERIMENTAL dependency as well. Ingo