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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC V5 00/11] Paravirtualized ticketlocks
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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC V5 00/11] Paravirtualized ticketlocks |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> |
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Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:51:46 -0700 |
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Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>, KVM <kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rth@xxxxxxxxxx, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Xen Devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On 10/14/2011 11:38 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 11:35 AM, Jason Baron wrote:
>> A nice featuer of jump labels, is that it allows the various branches
>> (currently we only support 2), to be written in c code (as opposed to asm),
>> which means you can write your code as you normally would and access any
>> parameters as you normally would - hopefully, making the code pretty
>> readable as well.
>>
>> I hope this better clarifies the use-cases for the various mechanisms.
>>
> There is an important subcase which might be handy which would be to
> allow direct patching of call instructions instead of using indirect calls.
Right, that's how the pvops patching is primarily used.
J
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