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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 09:54:06 +0200
From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <roger@xenproject.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] x86/altcall: hide casting away of const
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On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 08:32:09AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ALT_CALL_PTR() really means to get rid of const (when necessary, i.e. when
> used from apply_alt_calls()): We want to patch the original call site,
> after all, and memory-wise that's unrelated to the struct alt_call * that
> we start from.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger@xenproject.org>

Thanks, Roger.