From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:33:58 +1100
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:38 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > David Miller wrote:
> > > Perhaps the problem can be dealt with using ELF relocations.
> > >
> > > There is another case, discussed yesterday on netdev,
Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:14 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>>> +unsigned long xen_pmd_val(pmd_t pmd)
>>> +{
>>> + BUG();
>>> + return 0;
>>> +}
>>>
>> make it noret.
>>
>
> OK, I missed this one. How?
>
> Wondering if I've missed a trick here...
No, I don't
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:38 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> > Perhaps the problem can be dealt with using ELF relocations.
> >
> > There is another case, discussed yesterday on netdev, where run-time
> > resolution of ELF relocations would be useful (for
> > very-very-very
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:39 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> + /* Make sure kernel address space is empty so that a pagetable
> >> + will be allocated for it. */
> >>
> >
> > comment style.
> >
>
> As you've noticed its a comment style I use quite often.
Me
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:24 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Implement the actual patching machinery. paravirt_patch_default()
> > contains the logic to automatically patch a callsite based on a few
> > simple rules:
> >
> > - if the paravirt_
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:14 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > +unsigned long xen_pmd_val(pmd_t pmd)
> > +{
> > + BUG();
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> make it noret.
OK, I missed this one. How?
Wondering if I've missed a trick here...
Rusty.
___
Virtual
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I think the suggestion is much simpler. If you convince gcc/binutils to
> leave the .reloc section in vmlinux, and make that available to the
> kernel itself, then you can scan all the kernel's relocs to find ones
> which refer to paravirt_ops, and use those to determi
