Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 3 authors, 2020-12-16

Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] x86/paravirt: switch time pvops functions to use static_call()

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2020-11-20 12:03:17
Also in: kvm, lkml, virtualization, xen-devel

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:46:24PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
The time pvops functions are the only ones left which might be
used in 32-bit mode and which return a 64-bit value.

Switch them to use the static_call() mechanism instead of pvops, as
this allows quite some simplification of the pvops implementation.

Due to include hell this requires to split out the time interfaces
into a new header file.
There's also this patch floating around; just in case that would come in
handy:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110005609.40989-3-frederic@kernel.org
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