linux-kernel - Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-Id: <1173305670.24738.849.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:14:30 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Dan Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ak@...e.de,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:34 -0800, Dan Hecht wrote:
> On 03/07/2007 01:40 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:07 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > That would certainly be ideal.  We'll look at the xen, vmi, lguest and
> >> kvm paravirtualized time models and see how much they really have in
> >> common.  I'm a bit curious about how vmi's time events make their way
> >> back into the system.
> > 
> > By the crude mechanism I'm fighting.
> >
> 
> Hmm?  They make there way back via interrupts.  How is that crude?

Simply because you _ABUSE_ timer_init_hook() to set it up. Keep it self
contained and do not impose restrictions on the kernel core code, which
we have to maintain.

	tglx


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