Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] add jump labels for ia64 paravirt

From: Isaku Yamahata
Date: Mon Jul 11 2011 - 10:16:51 EST


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:24:00AM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On 07/11/2011 10:09 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 07/04/2011 06:32 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>>> Since in a later patch I intend to call jump labels inside
>>> CONFIG_PARAVIRT, IA64 would fail to compile if they are not
>>> provided. This patch provides those jump labels for the IA64
>>> architecture.
>>>
>>
>> Please get an ack for this from the ia64 maintainer.
>>
>
> The ones listed in paravirt.c are CC'd. I am CC'ing all the other
> folks related to IA64 listed in MAINTAINERS now.
>
> Just a heads up so the new folks CC'd can get up to speed:
> I am proposing moving the steal time calculation to inside the core
> scheduler. This move will make it easier for us to make decisions based
> on steal time accounting on virtual machines. Ia64 KVM may or may not
> follow this route - nothing that already works should break with this
> change.
>
> This patch is needed only to avoid breaking compilation, since it
> introduces two new variables that are expected be present when
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT, to paravirt.c.

Although the ia64 maintainer is Tony Luck,
I'm fine with the change as the ia64 paravirt author.

Acked-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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