Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933513Ab0BYTwR (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:52:17 -0500 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:32537 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933028Ab0BYTwQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:52:16 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,541,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="7359334" Subject: VMI and kmap_atomic_pte paravirt_op From: Ian Campbell To: Alok N Kataria CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Citrix Systems, Inc. Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:52:12 +0000 Message-ID: <1267127532.2488.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 595 Lines: 18 Hi Alok, How critical is the vmi_kmap_atomic_pte pv_mmu_op hook to VMI? Is it required for correct functionality or is it simply an optimisation? We think we may be able to do away with the Xen version of the hook and if VMI (which is deprecated) can live without it and you agree then I'll cook up a patch to remove it altogether. Thanks, Ian. -- 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/