From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8/8 Create MMU 2/3 level accessors in the sub-arch layer (i386)
Date: 06 Aug 2005 13:37:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73wtmz1ekk.fsf@bragg.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F46558.9010202@vmware.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> writes:
> i386 Transparent paravirtualization sub-arch patch #8.
>
> Transparent paravirtualization support for MMU operations.
>
> All operations which update live page table entries have been moved to the
> sub-architecture layer. Unfortunately, this required yet another parallel set
> of pgtable-Nlevel-ops.h files, but this avoids the ugliness of having to use
> #ifdef's all of the code.
>
> This is pure code motion. Anything else would be a bug.
I think that patch is really ugly - it makes hacking VM on i386
even more painful than it already is because the convolutes the file
structure even more. Hope it is not applied.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-06 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <42F46558.9010202@vmware.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-06 11:37 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-08-06 11:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-06 11:58 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-06 12:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-06 18:28 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-06 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-06 23:02 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-07 10:39 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-06 7:23 Zachary Amsden
2005-08-07 1:16 ` Chris Wright
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