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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:06:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469240EA.8000301@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070709103223.5bfe24d4@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> There were a considerable number of sensible logical objections. You just
> didn't agree with them. You've now effectively made .22 unsupportable
> since we don't know if someone has binary virtualiser crap loaded.


The pv_ops infrastructure doesn't support modular pv_ops 
implementations, and if it did, there's certainly no intention of 
supporting non-GPL implementations.

At the same time that all the other altinstruction patching happens, it 
converts any indirect calls via paravirt_ops into direct calls to the 
target function, bypassing struct paravirt_ops altogether.  After that 
the structure is pretty much only used for patching modules.  Any 
attempt at writing a modular pv_ops implementation would fail as a result.

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-17 21:42 Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7 Adrian Bunk
2007-06-18  4:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-08 22:44   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-08 23:02     ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-08 23:17       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-09  9:39         ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-09 10:06           ` Alan Cox
2007-07-09 10:35             ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-09  9:32       ` Alan Cox
2007-07-09  9:39         ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-09 14:06         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-09  2:46     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-09  9:51       ` Alan Cox
2007-07-09 13:55         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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