Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > If code assumes it is a simple compile-time constant in the > non-paravirt case, it will break paravirt. At least making it clearly > C syntax will prevent people from putting it into asm or .lds files. > > But it still seems to me it could be a variable either way. Are there > any performance-critical users of it? Well, there is the APIC mapping, which is now non-constant. We should at least do a simple measurement to show what the impact is, but I expect it to be unmeasurable. Zach