Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751083AbWHGFka (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:40:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751087AbWHGFka (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:40:30 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:40105 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751083AbWHGFk3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:40:29 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86 paravirt_ops: binary patching infrastructure Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:38:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Rusty Russell , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1154925835.21647.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154926048.21647.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1154926114.21647.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1154926114.21647.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608070738.13768.ak@muc.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 18 On Monday 07 August 2006 06:48, Rusty Russell wrote: > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT > +void apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch *start, struct paravirt_patch *end) It would be better to merge this with the existing LOCK prefix patching or perhaps the normal alternative() patcher (is there any particular reason you can't use it?) Three alternative patching mechanisms just seems to be too many -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/