Re: [PATCH v3 15/21] x86/xen: Drop xen_irq_ops

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 09:47:48AM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 06.10.25 20:55, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > > Instead of having a pre-filled array xen_irq_ops for Xen PV paravirt
> > > functions, drop the array and assign each element individually.
> > 
> > Same comment for the next few patches; this changelog is a little light
> > on *why*. I mean, I don't mind the change, but supposedly we should
> > justify things at least a little, right? :-)
> 
> Would you be fine with the following addition:
> 
>   This is in preparation of reducing the paravirt include hell by
>   splitting paravirt.h into multiple more fine grained header files,
>   which will in turn require to split up the pv_ops vector as well.
>   Dropping the pre-filled array makes life easier for objtool to
>   detect missing initializers in multiple pv_ops_ arrays.

Yes, that'll do. The latter being the main reason in this case, right?