On Sat 2006-07-22 10:14:34, Rusty Russell wrote:
> (forgot to send this to lkml before)
>
> Abstract sensitive instructions in assembler code, replacing them with
> macros (which currently are #defined to the native versions). We use
> long names: assembler is case-insensitive, so if something goes wrong
> and macros do not expand, it would assemble anyway.
>
> Resulting object files are exactly the same as before.
>
> Signed-off-by Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
>
> Index: working-2.6.18-rc2-hg-paravirt/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
> ===================================================================
> --- working-2.6.18-rc2-hg-paravirt.orig/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S 2006-07-21 21:09:22.000000000 +1000
> +++ working-2.6.18-rc2-hg-paravirt/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S 2006-07-22 04:32:25.000000000 +1000
> @@ -76,8 +76,15 @@
> NT_MASK = 0x00004000
> VM_MASK = 0x00020000
>
> +/* These are replaces for paravirtualization */
> +#define DISABLE_INTERRUPTS cli
> +#define ENABLE_INTERRUPTS sti
> +#define ENABLE_INTERRUPTS_SYSEXIT sti; sysexit
> +#define INTERRUPT_RETURN iret
Could we use some less verbose names, like possibly CLI, STI,
STI_SYSEXIT, IRET ?
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