This patch set is for binary patch optimization for paravirt_ops. The binary patch optimization is important on native case because the paravirt_ops overhead can be reduced by converting indirect call into in-place execution or direct call. The first patch imports helper functions which themselves doesn't interesting things. The second patch replaces the indirect function calls with a special call written in gcc extended inline asm and introduces native methods. The third patch introduces binary patch for kernel modules. The forth patch suppress false positive warnings which were caused by the previous patches. The last patch implements xen methods. For convenience the working full source is available from http://people.valinux.co.jp/~yamahata/xen-ia64/for_eagl/linux-2.6-ia64-pv-ops.git/ branch: ia64-pv-ops-2008nov25-xen-ia64-optimized-domu-binary-patch For the status of this patch series http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenIA64/UpstreamMerge thanks, Diffstat: arch/ia64/include/asm/intrinsics.h | 6 +- arch/ia64/include/asm/module.h | 6 + arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt.h | 8 + arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt_patch.h | 143 +++++++ arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt_privop.h | 347 ++++++++++++++++- arch/ia64/include/asm/xen/privop.h | 4 + arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile | 3 +- arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c | 1 + arch/ia64/kernel/module.c | 32 ++ arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt.c | 520 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- arch/ia64/kernel/paravirt_patch.c | 509 +++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/ia64/kernel/paravirtentry.S | 101 ++++- arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c | 1 + arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 24 ++ arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c | 2 + arch/ia64/xen/hypercall.S | 2 + arch/ia64/xen/xen_pv_ops.c | 667 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 17 files changed, 2351 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
