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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86 paravirt_ops: binary patching infrastructure
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:38:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608070738.13768.ak@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154926114.21647.38.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-07  5:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07  4:43 [PATCH 1/4] x86 paravirt_ops: create no_paravirt.h for native ops Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  4:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86 paravirt_ops: paravirt_desc.h for native descriptor ops Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  4:47   ` [PATCH 3/4] x86 paravirt_ops: implementation of paravirt_ops Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  4:48     ` [PATCH 4/4] x86 paravirt_ops: binary patching infrastructure Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  5:14       ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  5:38       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-07  5:56         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-07  5:39     ` [PATCH 3/4] x86 paravirt_ops: implementation of paravirt_ops Andi Kleen
2006-08-07  5:56       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-07  6:13       ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  6:20         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07  7:27           ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  5:40   ` [PATCH 2/4] x86 paravirt_ops: paravirt_desc.h for native descriptor ops Andi Kleen
2006-08-07  7:50     ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  8:53       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 17:19         ` Dave Jones
2006-08-07  5:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86 paravirt_ops: create no_paravirt.h for native ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-07  5:30 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07  5:43   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-07  6:02     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07  6:23       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-07  6:03     ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  6:16       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07  6:04   ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07  6:17     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07  6:27       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-08-07  7:34         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-07  8:40           ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-08-07 17:54             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-07 20:51     ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-08  1:59       ` Andi Kleen

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