On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:21:09AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > On 05/03/2013 03:51 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >Hi David, > > > >On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:48:36PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:22:52AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I am working on the MIPS KVM port, and am trying to figure out under > >>>which circumstances do I need to srcu_read_lock()/srcu_read_unlock() > >>>the kvm->srcu. > >> > >Is your work somehow related to the work of Sanjay Lal that can be found > >here: https://git.linux-mips.org/?p=ralf/upstream-sfr.git;a=summary? > > > > It is related in that a single asm/uaip/kvm.h must be shared between > the implementations. It differs in that it is based on the MIPS-VZ > hardware virtualization feature, where as Sanjay's code is a pure > software solution. > > If possible some code might be shared between the two, but it may > end up looking somewhat like the x86 implementation where there are > separate VMX and SVM implementations. > Sanjay code already has such design and the reason he gave for it was upcoming HW virtualization support. -- Gleb. -- 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
