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2007 Apr 18
1
rough sketch of revised patching infrastructure
Here's the new patching patch. It compiles, but it doesn't, you know,
boot, as such.
The basic idea is to make the incremental cost of patching a new hook as
small as possible. If a backend wants pure default patch handling, then
it can simply call paravirt_patcher with a NULL patch table; this will
end up patching calls to be direct calls to the paravirt op, unless the
op is NULL or
2007 Apr 18
1
rough sketch of revised patching infrastructure
Here's the new patching patch. It compiles, but it doesn't, you know,
boot, as such.
The basic idea is to make the incremental cost of patching a new hook as
small as possible. If a backend wants pure default patch handling, then
it can simply call paravirt_patcher with a NULL patch table; this will
end up patching calls to be direct calls to the paravirt op, unless the
op is NULL or