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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:06:34 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7
Alan Cox wrote:
> There were a considerable number of sensible logical objections. You just
> didn't agree with them. You've now effectively made .22 unsupportable
> since we don't know if someone has binary virtualiser crap loaded.
The pv_ops infrastructure doesn't support modular pv_ops
implementations, and if it did, there's certainly no intention of
supporting non-GPL implementations.
At the same time that all the other altinstruction patching happens, it
converts any indirect calls via paravirt_ops into direct calls to the
target function, bypassing struct paravirt_ops altogether. After that
the structure is pretty much only used for patching modules. Any
attempt at writing a modular pv_ops implementation would fail as a result.
J
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