Re: [PATCH v7 07/10] x86/vmscape: Use static_call() for predictor flush

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:03:40AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 11:22:06PM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> 
> > This plus extending it to support EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_FOR_KVM() is probably
> > a better solution. Please let me know which one you prefer.
> 
> The EXPORT twiddling will do I suppose. I'll try and not forget looking
> at doing the RO static_call thing some time.

Dunno, but exporting a static_call sounds really really wrong to me. No matter
where. As in: we're exporting the underlying inner workings of it and that
should be a big fat no-no.

So definitely +1 on exporting the helper instead.

I'd say...

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