Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:45:25 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 21:27 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need > to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of > defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. > > This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized > instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently > these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors > will override the ops structure with their own variants. > > All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific > register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier.
this is a lot of infrastructure... do we have more than 1 user of this yet that wants to get merged in mainline?
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