linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

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Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:52:17 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
CC:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, ziteng.huang@...el.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single
 project

On 03/24/2010 06:47 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> It's true.  If the kernel provides something, there are fewer things 
> that can break.  But if your system is so broken that you can't 
> resolve uids, fix that before running perf.  Must we design perf for 
> that case?
>
> After all, 'ls -l' will break under the same circumstances.  It's hard 
> to imagine doing useful work when that doesn't work.


Also, perf itself will hang if it needs to access a file using autofs or 
nfs, and those are broken.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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