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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2006-12-07 02:14:08 +0100 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2006-12-07 02:14:08 +0100 |
| commit | 139ec7c416248b9ea227d21839235344edfee1e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 54c396848b08367c0352c77f4633be6380a8eb16 /include/asm-x86_64 | |
| parent | [PATCH] paravirt: header and stubs for paravirtualisation (diff) | |
| download | linux-139ec7c416248b9ea227d21839235344edfee1e0.tar.xz linux-139ec7c416248b9ea227d21839235344edfee1e0.zip | |
[PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt intercepts
It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude,
are the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for
patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it.
The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which
is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a
number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded).
Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to
use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make
the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the
allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check.
And:
Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT.
And:
AK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build
And:
AK: Fix compilation with defconfig
And:
^From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and
__start_parainstructions.
And:
AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86_64')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h b/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h index a584826cc570..a6657b4f3e0e 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include <linux/types.h> +#include <linux/stddef.h> #include <asm/cpufeature.h> struct alt_instr { @@ -133,4 +134,15 @@ static inline void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp) {} #define LOCK_PREFIX "" #endif +struct paravirt_patch; +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT +void apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch *start, struct paravirt_patch *end); +#else +static inline void +apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch *start, struct paravirt_patch *end) +{} +#define __start_parainstructions NULL +#define __stop_parainstructions NULL +#endif + #endif /* _X86_64_ALTERNATIVE_H */ |