On 4/28/20 4:39 PM, Claudio Imbrenda wrote: >> From where I'm standing, we have a hook in the core VM that can't >> possibly work with some existing kernel functionality and has >> virtually no chance of getting used on a second architecture. > it seems to work at least for us, so it does possibly work :) I think all you're saying is that it's been very lightly tested. :) > regarding second architectures: when we started sending these patches > around, there has been interest from some other architectures, so > just because nobody else needs them now, it doesn't mean nobody will > use them ever. I was really interested in using them... until I looked at them. Conceptually, they do something really useful, but the _implementation_ falls short of its promises. I can't imagine ever using these hooks on x86.