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| author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2022-06-10 11:47:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2022-08-11 04:06:38 -0400 |
| commit | 0b6fd46ec5f5720b76cbb01300ed9f7b7c6365c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9da799a2f6ac0e30b9c71946506a2e1ce5b91ca1 /drivers/virtio | |
| parent | 02213273f72a43bad3a8e9c18595a2c74ee487e8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0b6fd46ec5f5720b76cbb01300ed9f7b7c6365c4.tar.gz | |
drivers/virtio: Clarify CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM for unsupported architectures
Let's make it clearer that simply unlocking CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM on an
architecture is most probably not sufficient to have it working as
expected.
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220610094737.65254-1-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig index afb9051e01253..02bbccd602c00 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig @@ -123,9 +123,11 @@ config VIRTIO_MEM This driver provides access to virtio-mem paravirtualized memory devices, allowing to hotplug and hotunplug memory. - This driver was only tested under x86-64 and arm64, but should - theoretically work on all architectures that support memory hotplug - and hotremove. + This driver currently only supports x86-64 and arm64. Although it + should compile on other architectures that implement memory + hot(un)plug, architecture-specific and/or common + code changes may be required for virtio-mem, kdump and kexec to work as + expected. If unsure, say M. |