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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
