Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758940AbXHSDNm (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:13:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754851AbXHSDNc (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:13:32 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.141]:55963 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755509AbXHSDNc (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:13:32 -0400 Message-ID: <46C7B448.3050404@vmware.com> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:08:56 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wright CC: Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: skip paravirt patching when appropriate References: <20070809241.425881000@suse.de> <20070809124132.C794A14F3B@wotan.suse.de> <46C637B7.30200@goop.org> <200708181149.48217.ak@suse.de> <20070818203230.GV3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20070818213141.GW3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <20070818222821.GX3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> In-Reply-To: <20070818222821.GX3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 23 Chris Wright wrote: > * Chris Wright (chrisw@sous-sol.org) wrote: > >> Now that I understand the problem, I do have a very simple (slightly >> overkill) fix for paravirt patching. This can be cleaned up to avoid >> the copies when they aren't needed, but that will take a little more >> auditing of the various patchers. If you still prefer a revert I've >> got one handy, and we can re-visit this all post .23. >> > > This one avoids the patching when necessary, but needs some validation on > VMI (and Zach's not avail today). I'll resend when I know it's working > for all paravirt patchers. > I'm back. I'll give this one a spin after dinner tonight. Zach - 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/