linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] add jump labels for ia64 paravirt

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Message-ID: <20110711141519.GE2548@valinux.co.jp>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:15:19 +0900
From:	Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@...inux.co.jp>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@...el.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>, tony.luck@...el.com,
	fenghua.yu@...el.com, xiantao.zhang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] add jump labels for ia64 paravirt

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:24:00AM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On 07/11/2011 10:09 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 07/04/2011 06:32 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>>> Since in a later patch I intend to call jump labels inside
>>> CONFIG_PARAVIRT, IA64 would fail to compile if they are not
>>> provided. This patch provides those jump labels for the IA64
>>> architecture.
>>>
>>
>> Please get an ack for this from the ia64 maintainer.
>>
>
> The ones listed in paravirt.c are CC'd. I am CC'ing all the other
> folks related to IA64 listed in MAINTAINERS now.
>
> Just a heads up so the new folks CC'd can get up to speed:
> I am proposing moving the steal time calculation to inside the core  
> scheduler. This move will make it easier for us to make decisions based  
> on steal time accounting on virtual machines. Ia64 KVM may or may not  
> follow this route - nothing that already works should break with this  
> change.
>
> This patch is needed only to avoid breaking compilation, since it  
> introduces two new variables that are expected be present when  
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT, to paravirt.c.

Although the ia64 maintainer is Tony Luck,
I'm fine with the change as the ia64 paravirt author.

Acked-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@...inux.co.jp>

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