Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravirt ops callsites to make them patchable

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From: David Miller
Date: Monday, March 19, 2007 - 12:08 pm

From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:57:28 +0100


It's inability to handle sequences like the above sounds to me like
a very good argument to _not_ merge the unwinder back into the tree.

To me, that unwinder is nothing but trouble, it severly limits what
cases you can use special calling conventions via inline asm (and we
have done that on several occaisions) and even ignoring that the
unwinder only works half the time.

Please don't subject us to another couple months of hair-pulling only
to have Linus yank the thing out again, there are certainly more
useful things to spend time on :-)
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Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Mar 19, 10:58 am)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Mar 19, 11:25 am)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., David Miller, (Mon Mar 19, 12:08 pm)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Mar 19, 12:10 pm)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Mar 19, 12:33 pm)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Mar 19, 1:06 pm)
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Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Mar 19, 6:45 pm)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Mar 19, 9:19 pm)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Mar 19, 10:54 pm)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Mar 20, 8:58 am)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Tue Mar 20, 9:25 am)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Mar 20, 9:26 am)
Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap para ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Tue Mar 20, 9:31 am)
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