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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2006-12-06 20:14:08 -0500
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-12-06 20:14:08 -0500
commit139ec7c416248b9ea227d21839235344edfee1e0 (patch)
tree54c396848b08367c0352c77f4633be6380a8eb16 /include/asm-i386/alternative.h
parentd3561b7fa0fb0fc583bab0eeda32bec9e4c4056d (diff)
[PATCH] paravirt: Patch inline replacements for paravirt intercepts
It turns out that the most called ops, by several orders of magnitude, are the interrupt manipulation ops. These are obvious candidates for patching, so mark them up and create infrastructure for it. The method used is that the ops structure has a patch function, which is called for each place which needs to be patched: this returns a number of instructions (the rest are NOP-padded). Usually we can spare a register (%eax) for the binary patched code to use, but in a couple of critical places in entry.S we can't: we make the clobbers explicit at the call site, and manually clobber the allowed registers in debug mode as an extra check. And: Don't abuse CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, add CONFIG_DEBUG_PARAVIRT. And: AK: Fix warnings in x86-64 alternative.c build And: AK: Fix compilation with defconfig And: ^From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Some binutlises still like to emit references to __stop_parainstructions and __start_parainstructions. And: AK: Fix warnings about unused variables when PARAVIRT is disabled. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386/alternative.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/alternative.h13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/alternative.h b/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
index b01a7ec409ce..b8fa9557c532 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/alternative.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
4#ifdef __KERNEL__ 4#ifdef __KERNEL__
5 5
6#include <asm/types.h> 6#include <asm/types.h>
7 7#include <linux/stddef.h>
8#include <linux/types.h> 8#include <linux/types.h>
9 9
10struct alt_instr { 10struct alt_instr {
@@ -118,4 +118,15 @@ static inline void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp) {}
118#define LOCK_PREFIX "" 118#define LOCK_PREFIX ""
119#endif 119#endif
120 120
121struct paravirt_patch;
122#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
123void apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch *start, struct paravirt_patch *end);
124#else
125static inline void
126apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch *start, struct paravirt_patch *end)
127{}
128#define __start_parainstructions NULL
129#define __stop_parainstructions NULL
130#endif
131
121#endif /* _I386_ALTERNATIVE_H */ 132#endif /* _I386_ALTERNATIVE_H */