Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq_flags / halt routines

[Chris Wright]

* Glauber de Oliveira Costa (gcosta@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> As alternatives what we have now, we can either keep the paravirt_ops as 
> it is now for the native case, just hooking the vsmp functions in place 
> of the normal one, (there are just three ops anyway), refill the 
> paravirt_ops entirely in somewhere like vsmp.c, or similar (or maybe 
> even assigning paravirt_ops.fn = vsmp_fn on the fly, but early enough).

This is the best (just override pvops.fn for the few needed for VSMP).
The irq_disabled_flags() is the only problem.  For i386 we dropped it
(disabled_flags) as a pvop and forced the backend to provide a flags
(via save_flags) that conforms to IF only.

thanks,
-chris
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