On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote: > Am 08.07.2014 11:03, schrieb Konstantin Khlebnikov: >> I know. But debugging/profiling of kernel code is much easier when it >> runs in userspace. >> I think this is the last use case where uml might beat normal hardware >> accelerated qemu/kvm. >> But without SMP and with that high overhead on each syscall and >> context/mm switch it's mostly useless. > > The major use case of UML is that you can run it on hardware without > KVM support. > Everyone else is using KVM. And that you don't need root permissions to run it. Which is why I'm still interested in an ARM port. Need... More... Spare... Time... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html