linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 15/21] x86/xen: Drop xen_irq

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Message-ID: <ace2b760-9cfc-4919-86c5-da22a3d110be@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:10:24 -0500
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org
Cc: 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>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 15/21] x86/xen: Drop xen_irq_ops


On 11/27/25 2:08 AM, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>