Re: [patch 14/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: add common patching machinery

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 05:22:14 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Implement the actual patching machinery. paravirt_patch_default()
> contains the logic to automatically patch a callsite based on a few
> simple rules:
>
> - if the paravirt_op function is paravirt_nop, then patch nops
> - if the paravirt_op function is a jmp target, then jmp to it
> - if the paravirt_op function is callable and doesn't clobber too much
> for the callsite, call it directly
>
> paravirt_patch_default is suitable as a default implementation of
> paravirt_ops.patch, will remove most of the expensive indirect calls
> in favour of either a direct call or a pile of nops.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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