Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:38:30 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC V5 00/11] Paravirtualized ticketlocks |
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On 10/14/2011 11:35 AM, Jason Baron wrote: > > A nice featuer of jump labels, is that it allows the various branches > (currently we only support 2), to be written in c code (as opposed to asm), > which means you can write your code as you normally would and access any > parameters as you normally would - hopefully, making the code pretty > readable as well. > > I hope this better clarifies the use-cases for the various mechanisms. >
There is an important subcase which might be handy which would be to allow direct patching of call instructions instead of using indirect calls.
-hpa
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