Re: ABI coupling to hypervisors via CONFIG_PARAVIRT

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The important part is that there's more to the story than just pv_ops. 
> If you wanted to make such a change, then you'd need to refactor the 
> i386 support code to add a vma->paging helper layer.  That layer would 
> be available for any pv_ops interface to use if it wishes.

no such change is needed to native. [ other than the removal of tons of 
lowlevel hooks ;-) ] Think of this in terms of a completely separate MM 
layer for guest kernels, with all memory management details done on the 
hypervisor side, ok? I dont think you can emulate that in an equivalent 
way via VMI, the kernel object in this model is on the hypervisor side - 
while with VMI that does not look possible.

	Ingo
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