Il 21/01/2014 22:12, Vadim Rozenfeld ha scritto:
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> If you are planning some level of backwards compatibility with RHEL6, it
> may make sense to use separate subsections.
I believe we have to make it backward compatible. In RHEL6 we added
support for relaxed timers only, but upstream doesn't have such bits.
Technically, hypercall page, vapic and iTSC pages will be introduced in
RHEL7 and as you said, they will probably go to a different, new
section, but for upstream the entire section is absolutely new.
Ok, then upstream we have choice. Using 2 subsections is not wrong, and
it makes sense since it's covered by different kernel capabilities.
Paolo
