linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:47:29 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mingo@...e.hu, chrisw@...s-sol.org,
	jeremy@...p.org, avi@...ranet.com, anthony@...emonkey.ws,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, lguest@...abs.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, kiran@...lemp.com,
	shai@...lemp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq_flags / halt routines

* Glauber de Oliveira Costa (gcosta@...hat.com) wrote:
> As alternatives what we have now, we can either keep the paravirt_ops as 
> it is now for the native case, just hooking the vsmp functions in place 
> of the normal one, (there are just three ops anyway), refill the 
> paravirt_ops entirely in somewhere like vsmp.c, or similar (or maybe 
> even assigning paravirt_ops.fn = vsmp_fn on the fly, but early enough).

This is the best (just override pvops.fn for the few needed for VSMP).
The irq_disabled_flags() is the only problem.  For i386 we dropped it
(disabled_flags) as a pvop and forced the backend to provide a flags
(via save_flags) that conforms to IF only.

thanks,
-chris
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