From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 16/35] subarch support for interrupt and exception gates
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:45:46 +0100
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:30, Chris Wright wrote:
> Abstract the code that sets up interrupt and exception gates, and
> add a separate subarch implementation for Xen.

AFAIK the only difference is that Xen uses a table of them to pass
the hypervisor and normal Linux calls the macros directly, right?

I would suggest you just use the table for normal Linux too
and make the function that processes them natively !CONFIG_XEN
I guess it will make the code smaller for the normal case and people happy.

That would be much cleaner than just separating it out.

-Andi

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