Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri May 07 2010 - 19:09:04 EST


On 05/07/2010 04:02 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> This patch implements a cleaned up hypervisor layer, plus cleans up some
>> of the aspects of both Hank's MS-HyperV patch and the existing VMware
>> driver. In particular, the MS-HyperV information is private
>> information, per system, not per CPU, and can thus simply be stored in
>> an ordinary global variable. This also turns the hypervisor detection
>> into an information structure instead of just an identifier.
>
> This looks great to me, thanks for doing this work.
>
> As this is a diff on top of my previous patch, do you want me to merge
> it in with it and resend it, or will you?
>

I was planning to put this on top of your patch as a second commit, just
to preserve history and authorship.

-ha
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