Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Nakajima, Jun wrote:
>>> one.  Start the kvm leaves at 0x40001000 or something?
>>>
>>>       
>> Yeah, that works with me.
>>     
>
> To me this is the beginning of fragmentation. Why do we need different
> and VMM-specific Linux paravirtualization for hardware-assisted
> virtualization? That would not be good for Linux.
>   

On the contrary.  Xen already has a hypercall interface, and we need to
keep supporting it.  If we were to also support a vmm-independent
interface (aka "kvm interface"), then we need to be able to do that in
parallel.  If we have a cpuid leaf clash, then its impossible to do so;
if we define the new interface to be disjoint from other current users
of cpuid, then we can support them concurrently.

    J
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