On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 07:05:24AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Without PARAVIRT_SPINLOCK this would be just an alternative() then? That could maybe work yes. This is all early enough. > Maybe the resulting code would be much more readable if we'd just > make PARAVIRT_SPINLOCK usable without the other PARAVIRT hooks? So > splitting up PARAVIRT into PARAVIRT_GUEST (timer hooks et al) and > the patching infrastructure, with PARAVIRT_GUEST and PARAVIRT_SPINLOCK > selecting PARAVIRT, and PARAVIRT_XXL selecting PARAVIRT_GUEST. Well, ideally we'll get static_call() sorted and use that.
