This patch set is intended for the next merge window. They are just enhancements of the already merged patches or ia64 porting from x86 paravirt techniques and that their quality is enough for merge. This patch set is for binary patch optimization for paravirt_ops which depends on the patch series I sent out, ia64/pv_ops, xen: more paravirtualization. The binary patch optimization is important on native case because the paravirt_ops overhead can be reduced by converting indirect call into in-place execution or direct call. The patch series does - The first patch imports helper functions which themselves doesn't interesting things. - The second patch replaces the indirect function calls with a special call written in gcc extended inline asm and introduces native methods. - The third patch introduces binary patch for kernel modules. - The forth patch suppress false positive warnings which were caused by the previous patches. - The last patch implements xen methods. For convenience the working full source is available from http://people.valinux.co.jp/~yamahata/xen-ia64/for_eagl/linux-2.6-ia64-pv-ops.git/ branch: ia64-pv-ops-2008dec22-xen-ia64-optimized-domu-binary-patch For the status of this patch series http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenIA64/UpstreamMerge thanks, changes from take 2: - removed trivial compilation error depending on .config changes from take 1: - no essential change from the last one - rebased to 2.6.28-rc8 - don't use cmp_inst_t. define and use ia64_inst_t, instead. - improve some assebmly code. Diffstat: arch/ia64/include/asm/intrinsics.h | 6 +- arch/ia64/include/asm/module.h | 6 + arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt.h | 8 + arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt_patch.h | 143 +++++++ arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt_privop.h | 347 ++++++++++++++++- arch/ia64/include/asm/xen/privop.h | 4 + arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile | 3 +- arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c | 1 + arch/ia64/kernel/module.c | 32 ++ arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt.c | 520 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt_patch.c | 514 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/ia64/kernel/paravirtentry.S | 99 ++++- arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c | 2 + arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 24 ++ arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c | 2 + arch/ia64/xen/hypercall.S | 2 + arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c | 665 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 17 files changed, 2353 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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