Carsten Otte wrote:
> This series of patches adds support for s390host. This interface can be
> used to run virtual machines using s390's hardware virtualization
> capability SIE. 

I must say I'm pleasantly surprised by this.  I keep thinking of ppc and
ia64 as additional ports, while ignoring the big daddy of virtualization.


> Similar to the kvm interface on x86, this interface is
> hardware dependent at this time. Patches apply against 2.6.21, please
> review.
>   

It's all greek to me.

> We intend to move to a common arch-independent kernel interface and
> userspace with kvm.
>
>   

The address space and vcpu management are rather different from kvm's,
however your approach is better and we'll want to move kvm in your
direction rather than the other way round (specifically the tight vcpu
<-> task coupling; mmu is more diffcult).

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to 
panic.


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