On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 01:28:32PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > This is a major cleanup of the paravirt infrastructure aiming at > eliminating all custom code patching via paravirt patching. > > This is achieved by using ALTERNATIVE instead, leading to the ability > to give objtool access to the patched in instructions. > > In order to remove most of the 32-bit special handling from pvops the > time related operations are switched to use static_call() instead. > > At the end of this series all paravirt patching has to do is to > replace indirect calls with direct ones. In a further step this could > be switched to static_call(), too. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> I've rebased my objtool/retpoline branch on top of this, will post if/when this hits tip. Negative alternative works like a charm.
