RE: [PATCH 1/3] PAD helper for native and paravirt platform

From: Liu, Jinsong
Date: Fri Feb 17 2012 - 13:00:03 EST


>>
>> +static inline int __acpi_pad_init(void)
>> +{
>> + return PVOP_CALL0(int, pv_pad_ops.acpi_pad_init); +}
>> +
>> +static inline void __acpi_pad_exit(void)
>> +{
>> + PVOP_VCALL0(pv_pad_ops.acpi_pad_exit);
>> +}
>
> With this you, aiui, you aim at getting the calls patched. Are the
> callers of this really on performance critical paths? If not, the
> simpler approach of having an ops structure the fields of which get
> overwritten by
> Xen initialization would seem a more appropriate approach.
>

Yes, I agree. I code in this way just want to keep same coding style as other pv functions of paravirt.h.
I update the patch w/ a simpler approach, and will post later.
Of course, we need Konrad's comments.

Thanks,
Jinsong--
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