Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: move vmware to hypervisor

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] x86: move vmware to hypervisor
> 
> Impact: cleanup
> 
> vmware is only required by hypervisor and having only two functions
> by moving these two functions to hypervisor we get rid of 2 vmware files
> 
> Added support for CONFIG_X86_HYPERVISOR
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                  |   12 ++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h |   34 ++++++++++-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h     |   27 ---------
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile      |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c  |   80 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c      |  112 -------------------------------------
>  6 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 163 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vmware.h
>  delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c

I dont really like this one. KVM is a hypervisor too, and so is 
Xen and lguest. VMware is one of the many types of a 
hypervisors.

	Ingo
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