* Andi Kleen (ak@xxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 07:30, Chris Wright wrote: > > Abstract the code that sets up interrupt and exception gates, and > > add a separate subarch implementation for Xen. > > AFAIK the only difference is that Xen uses a table of them to pass > the hypervisor and normal Linux calls the macros directly, right? Yes. > I would suggest you just use the table for normal Linux too > and make the function that processes them natively !CONFIG_XEN > I guess it will make the code smaller for the normal case and people happy. Hadn't considered that type of consolidation. So load_idt() would generally be one step further from lidt insn on native, which shouldn't be a problem. Looks like kexec would need to be taught about building the table. thanks, -chris
