On Monday 07 August 2006 06:48, Rusty Russell wrote: > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT > +void apply_paravirt(struct paravirt_patch *start, struct paravirt_patch *end) It would be better to merge this with the existing LOCK prefix patching or perhaps the normal alternative() patcher (is there any particular reason you can't use it?) Three alternative patching mechanisms just seems to be too many -Andi