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From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/21] arm64: KVM: Add patchable function selector
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 16:34:56 -0600
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:50:04PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> KVM so far relies on code patching, and is likely to use it more
> in the future. The main issue is that our alternative system works
> at the instruction level, while we'd like to have alternatives at
> the function level.

How about setting static-keys at hyp init time?

Thanks,
drew