linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1 6/8] x86/init: use linker table for i386 early setup

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Message-ID: <CAB=NE6VJNwNofFvK0ZHGaKtthrW65qCgZoieOtCwxXx+tNzWcQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:41:58 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>, mcb30@...e.org,
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	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>,
	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 6/8] x86/init: use linker table for i386 early setup

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:16:35PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
>>
>> This also annotates this is only used for PC and
>> lguest hardware subarchitectures.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>
>
> On Xen the code path (before this patch) was:
> xen_start_kernel->i386_start_kernel->i386_default_early_setup
>
> and now you remove the i386_default_early_setup call?

No you're right, this should include the Xen subarch as well, thanks for that.

 Luis