* Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi - > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 04:52:21PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > [...] > > > Perhaps the fact that kvm happens to deal with an interesting application > > > area (virtualization) is misleading here. As far as the host kernel or > > > other host userspace is concerned, qemu is just some random unprivileged > > > userspace program [...] > > > You are quite mistaken: KVM isnt really a 'random unprivileged > > application' in this context, it is clearly an extension of > > system/kernel services. > > I don't know what "extension of system/kernel services" means in this > context, beyond something running on the system/kernel, like every other > process. [...] It means something like my example of 'extended to guest space' /proc/kallsyms: > > [...] > > > > ( Which can be seen from the simple fact that what started the > > discussion was 'how do we get /proc/kallsyms from the guest'. I.e. an > > extension of the existing host-space /proc/kallsyms was desired. ) > > (Sorry, that smacks of circular reasoning.) To me it sounds like an example supporting my point. /proc/kallsyms is a service by the kernel, and 'perf kvm' desires this to be extended to guest space as well. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
