Merge branch 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/l…

…inux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, paravirt: Remove alloc_pmd_clone hook, only used by VMI
  x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support

Fix up trivial #include conflict in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -386,34 +386,6 @@ Who:	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
 
 ----------------------------
 
-What:	Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be
-	dropped.
-When:	2.6.37 or earlier.
-Why:	With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
-	from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
-	techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
-	These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
-	performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
-	expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
-	years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
-	feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the
-	Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if
-	technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops)
-	arise.
-
-	Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
-	still work fine on VMware's platform.
-	Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
-	Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
-	releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
-
-	For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
-	http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
-
-Who:	Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
-
-----------------------------
-
 What:	Support for lcd_switch and display_get in asus-laptop driver
 When:	March 2010
 Why:	These two features use non-standard interfaces. There are the

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			[ARM] imx_timer1,OSTS,netx_timer,mpu_timer2,
 				pxa_timer,timer3,32k_counter,timer0_1
 			[AVR32] avr32
-			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc,vmi-timer;
+			[X86-32] pit,hpet,tsc;
 				scx200_hrt on Geode; cyclone on IBM x440
 			[MIPS] MIPS
 			[PARISC] cr16

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -521,25 +521,6 @@ if PARAVIRT_GUEST
 
 source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
 
-config VMI
-	bool "VMI Guest support (DEPRECATED)"
-	select PARAVIRT
-	depends on X86_32
-	---help---
-	  VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
-	  (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
-	  at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
-	  provided by the hypervisor.
-
-	  As of September 2009, VMware has started a phased retirement
-	  of this feature from VMware's products. Please see
-	  feature-removal-schedule.txt for details.  If you are
-	  planning to enable this option, please note that you cannot
-	  live migrate a VMI enabled VM to a future VMware product,
-	  which doesn't support VMI. So if you expect your kernel to
-	  seamlessly migrate to newer VMware products, keep this
-	  disabled.
-
 config KVM_CLOCK
 	bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
 	select PARAVIRT

arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h

@@ -416,11 +416,6 @@ static inline void paravirt_alloc_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pfn)
 	PVOP_VCALL2(pv_mmu_ops.alloc_pmd, mm, pfn);
 }
 
-static inline void paravirt_alloc_pmd_clone(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long clonepfn,
-					    unsigned long start, unsigned long count)
-{
-	PVOP_VCALL4(pv_mmu_ops.alloc_pmd_clone, pfn, clonepfn, start, count);
-}
 static inline void paravirt_release_pmd(unsigned long pfn)
 {
 	PVOP_VCALL1(pv_mmu_ops.release_pmd, pfn);

arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h

@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops {
 	 */
 	void (*alloc_pte)(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pfn);
 	void (*alloc_pmd)(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pfn);
-	void (*alloc_pmd_clone)(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long clonepfn, unsigned long start, unsigned long count);
 	void (*alloc_pud)(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pfn);
 	void (*release_pte)(unsigned long pfn);
 	void (*release_pmd)(unsigned long pfn);