* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wrap a set of interesting paravirt_ops calls in a wrapper which makes > the callsites available for patching. Unfortunately this is pretty > ugly because there's no way to get gcc to generate a function call, > but also wrap just the callsite itself with the necessary labels. > > This patch supports functions with 0-4 arguments, and either void or > returning a value. 64-bit arguments must be split into a pair of > 32-bit arguments (lower word first). Small structures are returned in > registers. ugh. This is beyond ugly! Why dont we just compile two images, one for Xen and one for native, do two passes to get those two images and 'merge' them into a single vmlinuz (so that we still have a 'single' kernel unit to deal with on the distro side). This way we avoid all this crazy, limited, fragile patchery business... Ingo _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
