Re: [GIT PULL][RESEND #2] KVM Updates for 2.6.23-rc1

From: S.ÃaÄlar Onur
Date: Tue Jul 17 2007 - 14:40:00 EST


Hi;

17 Tem 2007 Sal tarihinde, Avi Kivity ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ:
> I fixed the issue with the previous patchset. Please provide further
> feedback, or pull from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm.git for-linus
>
> This contains kvm updates for the 2.6.23 merge window, including
>
> - performance improvements
> - suspend/resume fixes
> - guest smp
> - random fixes and cleanups

I have a tiny question triggered in my mind after seeing following, sorry if
this was disccussed before;

config KVM
tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support"
depends on X86 && EXPERIMENTAL
depends on X86_CMPXCHG64 || 64BIT

If i'm not wrong X86_CMPXCHG64 depends on CONFIG_X86_PAE which depends on
HIGHMEM64 and again if i'm not wrong this means distributions who wants to
provide KVM must enable CONFIG_X86_PAE and CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G from now on?

Is this intentional or this is here because of an assumption like "processors
supports virtualization already provides PAE", could you please enlighten me?

Cheers
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S.ÃaÄlar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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