Re: [PATCH RFC WIP] x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reducecaller register pressure

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed Jan 28 2009 - 18:39:17 EST


Zachary Amsden wrote:
Enable/Disable have no clobbers at all.
Save clobbers only return value, %eax
Restore also clobbers nothing.

The patching code has gotten quite complex with the 32/64 union; let me
apply it first and see before I comment on the patch.

This gets it to compile.

diff -r 452b0aa6f629 arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c Wed Jan 28 14:18:52 2009 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c Wed Jan 28 15:37:54 2009 -0800
@@ -670,10 +670,11 @@
para_fill(pv_mmu_ops.write_cr2, SetCR2);
para_fill(pv_mmu_ops.write_cr3, SetCR3);
para_fill(pv_cpu_ops.write_cr4, SetCR4);
- para_fill(pv_irq_ops.save_fl, GetInterruptMask);
- para_fill(pv_irq_ops.restore_fl, SetInterruptMask);
- para_fill(pv_irq_ops.irq_disable, DisableInterrupts);
- para_fill(pv_irq_ops.irq_enable, EnableInterrupts);
+
+ para_fill(pv_irq_ops.save_fl.func, GetInterruptMask);
+ para_fill(pv_irq_ops.restore_fl.func, SetInterruptMask);
+ para_fill(pv_irq_ops.irq_disable.func, DisableInterrupts);
+ para_fill(pv_irq_ops.irq_enable.func, EnableInterrupts);

para_fill(pv_cpu_ops.wbinvd, WBINVD);
para_fill(pv_cpu_ops.read_tsc, RDTSC);

J
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