Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765523AbXHOOst (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761034AbXHOOsl (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:48:41 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56969 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761026AbXHOOsk (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:48:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:42:44 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa Cc: Andi Kleen , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@elte.hu, chrisw@sous-sol.org, jeremy@goop.org, avi@qumranet.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, lguest@ozlabs.org, Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq_flags / halt routines Message-ID: <20070815154243.GH3406@bingen.suse.de> References: <11871821854176-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <1187182197314-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11871822062386-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11871822163867-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <20070815135554.GE3406@bingen.suse.de> <5d6222a80708150718v14f26343q7467385e7919fa76@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80708150718v14f26343q7467385e7919fa76@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 24 On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:18:25AM -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > > Didn't we agree this should be a pvops client? > > > > -Andi > > > No. I exposed my reasoning, asked you back, but got no answer. > I'll do it again: > > This operations are just manipulating bits, and are doing no > privileged operations at all. Nothing that can be paravirtualized, in It's talking to a Hypervisor. That is privileged enough. Please do that change. If you add so many more ifdefs it's your duty to keep the overall number low. Various other paravirt ops also do things which are not strictly privileged. -Andi - 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/