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

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/5] various small improvements and cleanup
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:33:29 +0000
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On 22/12/2010 13:29, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> 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).

Ah yes. Put that bit in a separate patch.

 -- Keir

> 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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