Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 12:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:11:16 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>>> * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> + if (wrmsr_safe(MSR_KVM_API_MAGIC, __pa(para_state), 0)) {
>>>>>> + printk(KERN_INFO "KVM guest: WRMSR probe failed.\n");
>>>>>> + return -ENOENT;
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>>
>>>>> How about printk(KERN_INFO "I am not a KVM guest\n");?
>>>>>
>>>> Actually paravirt probes that fail should be silent; similar like
>>>> drivers that don't find their hardware should do the same. Otherwise
>>>> if there are later distro kernels with various of those compiled in
>>>> the boot log would become quite noisy
>>>>
>>> yeah. I suspect printing that it's executing in native mode is OK.
>>>
>> But only a single printk for that please
>>
>
> Which already exists in paravirt.c:
>
> static void __init default_banner(void)
> {
> printk(KERN_INFO "Booting paravirtualized kernel on %s\n",
> paravirt_ops.name);
> }
> ...
> static int __init print_banner(void)
> {
> paravirt_ops.banner();
> return 0;
> }
> core_initcall(print_banner);
>
> Hmm, this will predate your kvm initcall tho, and making that a
> pure_initcall is pretty gross...
>
My current patch uses core_initcall() and presumably works by magic of
linking order.
Any other suggestions over core_initcall()?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
>
>
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