linux-kernel - Re: Removing VMI kernel support from 2.6.37

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4C7306AF.4030202@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:39:27 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	akataria@...are.com
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Removing VMI kernel support from 2.6.37

On 08/23/2010 02:49 PM, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Removal of VMI(VMware's para-virtualization technique) is scheduled for
> 2.6.37, I was wondering what would be the right time frame for
> submitting a patch which does that. Does the x86-tip tree have any next
> branch where we can park this patch ?
> 
> Below is the patch for your reference which just removes VMI specific
> bits, applies on top of x86-tip.
> 
> There is also an opportunity to remove the alloc_pmd_clone hook from
> paravirt side of the things. This interface is only used for VMI, will
> send a follow-on patch later on to do that though.
> 

That would be nice.  In the meantime I have queued up your patch.

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