linux-kernel - Re: [patch 09/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: remove HAVE_ARCH_MM_LIFETIME, define no-op architecture implementations

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Date:	Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:48:40 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 09/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: remove HAVE_ARCH_MM_LIFETIME,
 define no-op architecture implementations

James Bottomley wrote:
> Yes ... I forgot about that ... we'd need an asm/mmu_context_paravirt.h
> on every arch.
>   

Yep.  And I'm not too keen on that name; one could imagine other uses
for those hooks, even if they're being used for x86 paravirtualization
in this instance.

> I suppose this is just me being lazy ... I'm currently doing a bit of a
> rewrite in asm-parisc/mmu_context.h and I didn't want a massive merge
> conflict.
>   

Well, I'm happy to create asm-generic/mm_hooks.h or something, and
reduce all the changes to asm-*/mmu_context.h to a one-liner.

    J
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