Re: [PATCH 02/11] Add "handle page fault" PV helper.

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On 11/08/2009 01:36 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Three existing callbacks are: kmemcheck, mmiotrace, notifier. Two
of them kmemcheck, mmiotrace are enabled only for debugging, should
not be performance concern. And notifier call sites (two of them)
are deliberately, as explained by comment, not at the function entry,
so can't be unified with others. (And kmemcheck also has two different
call site BTW)
We want mmiotrace to be generic distro capable so the overhead when the
hook is not used is of concern.


Maybe we should generalize paravirt-ops patching in case if (x) f() is deemed too expensive.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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