From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
xemul@parallels.com, Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
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Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
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Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] kcmp: Make it to depend on CONFIG_KCMP
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:41:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51240DC0.7020302@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130219221146.GR20312@moon>
On 02/19/2013 02:11 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:00:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>> I think this syscall is usefull even without c/r stuff.
>>> That's why I made it with separate config option.
>>
>> hm, OK.
>>
>> But the patch also permits CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE=y, CONFIG_KCMP=n
>> which surely isn't something which CRIU wants to support?
>
> Hmm, yes from one pov this feature is useful for out-of-c/r user,
> from another pov -- we will have to ask users to turn on additional
> CONFIG entries (which i'm sure not set by default in wide range of distros).
> Thus it seems less paiful way is either make it obj-(CHECKPOINT_RESTORE)
> as you proposed, or obj-y by default. The last can't be undone, so I'll
> prepare the patch for obj-(CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) I think.
>
Well, that's what dependencies are for.
Either way we might just want to wait for such a use case to appear, I
don't know.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-19 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-19 6:48 [patch 0/2] make kcmp own config entry Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 6:48 ` [patch 1/2] kcmp: Make it to depend on CONFIG_KCMP Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 8:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-02-19 9:22 ` Michal Marek
2013-02-19 9:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 17:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-19 18:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-19 21:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-19 22:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 21:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-19 22:11 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 22:15 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 22:32 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 23:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-19 6:48 ` [patch 2/2] arm: Wire up kcmp syscall Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-19 7:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-20 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-21 5:43 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-02-23 22:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
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