PARAVIRT_SAVE_FLAGS_IRQ_DISABLE composite callsite

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On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 01:40 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> What was the point of this again?  Was it that these two operations are
> used so commonly together that its worth having a special type for them,
> or is there some correctness issue here?
> 
> It seems to me that having it adds a fair amount of fiddley complexity,
> and it doesn't gain very much because patching will make each operation
> individually fairly efficient.

Yes, the combo was *so* common we went for one patch site rather than
two.

Rusty.




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