Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC 0/8]KVM: swap out guest pages

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 20:34 +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:29:36PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > >Actually it requires lots of deep down VM internals symbols that'll
> never
> > >get exported.
> > >
> > > 
> >
> > What's "it" here?  kvm-specific address space or generic vmas.
> 
> The patches in this thread.
> 
> > Generic vmas will be more intrusive AFAICT.
> 
> People use intrusive differently.  Doing big changes to core code is
> not
> a problem if we actually get a proper interface.  Just exporting core
> function without other changes and then writing code in modules that
> pokes into internals is much much worse.
The patch follows the same way shm swap out pages. The only difference
is kvm is a module but shm not. why kvm can't use the symbols shm used?

Sure, it's possible to write guest memory to a file so not use the
symbols, if you really hate this, I'll consider the alternative method.

Thanks,
Shaohua