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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/5] various small improvements and cleanup

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/5] various small improvements and cleanup
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:29:17 +0000
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>>> On 22.12.10 at 14:25, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, these all look fine to me. Actually I'm not sure whether we really need
> a general-purpose sort (patch 1/5). But I suppose we could use it in places
> like extable.c, so we might as well have it.

That's where it gets used (in patch 2).

Jan

> On 22/12/2010 12:04, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This patch set is only loosely connected (with the exception of the first
>> two patches and some ordering dependencies to apply cleanly), and is
>> known to apply only to c/s 22467. I'm posting in the hope to get
>> eventual review comments in order to then possibly do a re-submission
>> once the large set of changes currently pending in the staging tree
>> passed regression testing.
>> 
>> Patch 1/5: make sort() generally available
>> Patch 2/5: x86-64: use PC-relative exception table entries
>> Patch 3/5: x86: link time .data section adjustments
>> Patch 4/5: x86: avoid unlikely taken forward branches
>> Patch 5/5: use bool_t for various boolean variables
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
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