Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86 paravirt_ops: binary patching infrastructure

Andi Kleen
2006-08-07T05:40:30Z

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