linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 15/21] x86/xen: Drop xen_irq

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Message-ID: <471cefb9-538b-478c-89ec-53ee0e6308b1@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 12:29:46 +0200
From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
 Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
 xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 15/21] x86/xen: Drop xen_irq_ops

On 07.10.25 12:21, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 09:47:48AM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> On 06.10.25 20:55, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> Instead of having a pre-filled array xen_irq_ops for Xen PV paravirt
>>>> functions, drop the array and assign each element individually.
>>>
>>> Same comment for the next few patches; this changelog is a little light
>>> on *why*. I mean, I don't mind the change, but supposedly we should
>>> justify things at least a little, right? :-)
>>
>> Would you be fine with the following addition:
>>
>>    This is in preparation of reducing the paravirt include hell by
>>    splitting paravirt.h into multiple more fine grained header files,
>>    which will in turn require to split up the pv_ops vector as well.
>>    Dropping the pre-filled array makes life easier for objtool to
>>    detect missing initializers in multiple pv_ops_ arrays.
> 
> Yes, that'll do. The latter being the main reason in this case, right?
Yes.

Juergen

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