linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] paravirt,xen: remove xen

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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:29:31 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
        rusty@...tcorp.com.au, lguest@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] paravirt,xen: remove xen_patch()

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 02:52:52PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Xen's paravirt patch function xen_patch() does some special casing for
> irq_ops functions to apply relocations when those functions can be
> patched inline instead of calls.
> 
> Unfortunately none of the special case function replacements is small
> enough to be patches inline, so the special case never applies.
> 
> As xen_patch() will call paravirt_patch_default() in all cases it can
> be just dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>

Can the ENDPATCH and RELOC macros can also be removed, along with their
usages in xen-asm.S and xen-asm_64.S?

-- 
Josh