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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	x86@kernel.org, lguest@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] paravirt,xen: remove xen_patch()
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:22:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ad4eb2a-7935-e574-9485-638f98613452@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170816173157.8633-2-jgross@suse.com>

On 08/16/2017 01:31 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Xen's paravirt patch function xen_patch() does some special casing for
> irq_ops functions to apply relocations when those functions can be
> patched inline instead of calls.
>
> Unfortunately none of the special case function replacements is small
> enough to be patched inline, so the special case never applies.
>
> As xen_patch() will call paravirt_patch_default() in all cases it can
> be just dropped. xen-asm.h doesn't seem necessary without xen_patch()
> as the only thing left in it would be the definition of XEN_EFLAGS_NMI
> used only once. So move that definition and remove xen-asm.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Applied to for-linus-4.14

-boris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-18 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-16 17:31 [PATCH v2 0/2] x86: paravirt related cleanup Juergen Gross
2017-08-16 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] paravirt,xen: remove xen_patch() Juergen Gross
2017-08-16 19:16   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-08-16 19:16   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-08-18 13:22   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-08-18 13:22   ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-08-24  8:25   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch() tip-bot for Juergen Gross
2017-08-16 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] paravirt,xen: remove xen_patch() Juergen Gross
2017-08-16 17:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/lguest: remove lguest support Juergen Gross
2017-08-16 17:31 ` Juergen Gross
2017-08-24  8:25   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86/lguest: Remove " tip-bot for Juergen Gross
2017-08-17  0:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] x86: paravirt related cleanup Rusty Russell
2017-08-17  0:58 ` Rusty Russell

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