Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> I think I will get flamed if I try to pull to the core a bunch of code >> that always lived in the KVM module. 8) >> > > Why is KVM modular anyway? That seems like some pretty core cpu > functionality... >
Many reasons. Developers like the ability to rmmod and modprobe during development. Distros like to keep their non-modular core small. There is an external module distribution that allows users to graft a new kvm on an old kernel, which our testers and bleeding edge users like. Because it's there. There's always CONFIG_KVM=y if you don't want it. > Depending. It doesn't sound like svm has the problem where init doesn't > work so svm really doesn't need to do this. > svm can writeback into memory at odd times if we don't do this, and the cost is small - clear a bit in EFER. There's no reason to be lazy. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
