From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC v1 4/8] x86/init: add linker table support Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:52:12 -0800 Message-ID: <56A136EC.1040308@zytor.com> References: <1450217797-19295-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1450217797-19295-5-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <20160120210014.GF4769@char.us.oracle.com> <56A0990C.9090601@citrix.com> <56A0E0FB.6020809@oracle.com> <56A130B5.8060701@zytor.com> <56A1366C.6070702@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <56A1366C.6070702@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Boris Ostrovsky , =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Stefano Stabellini , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Rusty Russell , Andy Lutomirski , mcb30@ipxe.org, Juergen Gross , Jan Beulich , joro@8bytes.org, Andrey Ryabinin , andreyknvl@google.com, long.wanglong@huawei.com, qiuxishi@huawei.com, aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Valentin Rothberg , Peter Senna Tschudin , X86 ML , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , linux-kernel@vger.kern List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 01/21/16 11:50, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Right... we already do that. > > I don't even think you need to initialize any tables. At least on i386, > we have to do this in assembly code. However, it is just a simple table > walk. :) > It might make more sense to make subarch its own table, though, although I haven't looked at your code in enough detail to say. -hpa