This is the first commit of a patch series that aims to replace the modular kvm.ko kernel module with a monolithic kvm-intel/kvm-amd model. This change has the only possible cons of wasting some disk space in /lib/modules/. The pros are that it saves CPUS and some minor RAM which are more scarse resources than disk space. The pointer to function virtual template model cannot provide any runtime benefit because kvm-intel and kvm-amd can't be loaded at the same time. This removes kvm.ko and it links and duplicates all kvm.ko objects to both kvm-amd and kvm-intel. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/Makefile | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/Makefile b/arch/x86/kvm/Makefile index 31ecf7a76d5a..68b81f381369 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/Makefile @@ -12,9 +12,8 @@ kvm-y += x86.o mmu.o emulate.o i8259.o irq.o lapic.o \ i8254.o ioapic.o irq_comm.o cpuid.o pmu.o mtrr.o \ hyperv.o page_track.o debugfs.o -kvm-intel-y += vmx/vmx.o vmx/vmenter.o vmx/pmu_intel.o vmx/vmcs12.o vmx/evmcs.o vmx/nested.o -kvm-amd-y += svm.o pmu_amd.o +kvm-intel-y += vmx/vmx.o vmx/vmenter.o vmx/pmu_intel.o vmx/vmcs12.o vmx/evmcs.o vmx/nested.o $(kvm-y) +kvm-amd-y += svm.o pmu_amd.o $(kvm-y) -obj-$(CONFIG_KVM) += kvm.o obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL) += kvm-intel.o obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_AMD) += kvm-amd.o
