Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751456AbWHWH4p (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:56:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751457AbWHWH4p (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:56:45 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:29835 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751456AbWHWH4o (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:56:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h From: Arjan van de Ven To: Zachary Amsden Cc: Andi Kleen , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <44EB7F0C.60402@vmware.com> References: <1155202505.18420.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44DB7596.6010503@goop.org> <1156254965.27114.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200608221544.26989.ak@muc.de> <44EB3BF0.3040805@vmware.com> <1156271386.2976.102.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1156275004.27114.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44EB584A.5070505@vmware.com> <44EB5A76.9060402@vmware.com> <44EB7F0C.60402@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:56:28 +0200 Message-Id: <1156319788.2829.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 21 > Since this code is so rather, um, custom, I was going to reimplement > stop_machine in the module. that sounds like a big mistake. I assume you want your VMI module to be part of mainline for one. And this is the sort of thing that if we want to support it, we better support it inside the main kernel, eg provide an api to modules to use it, rather than having each module hack their own.... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/