Re: [PATCH 24/24] make vsmp a paravirt client

[Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>]

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Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:43:05PM -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
>> This patch makes vsmp a paravirt client. It now uses the whole
>> infrastructure provided by pvops. When we detect we're running
>> a vsmp box, we change the irq-related paravirt operations (and so,
>> it have to happen quite early), and the patching function
> 
> The PARAVIRT ifdefs look wrong. Surely you don't need them at all
> because it cannot work at all without paravirt.

The vsmp_64.c file is now compiled unconditionally, according to which
me and kiran agreed to. The detection code is always run, but will only
trigger when a suitable box is found. Accordingly, the paravirt structs
are only touched when PARAVIRT is on. Otherwise, we don't even have the
symbols.

> Also you got some white space damage.

Thanks, will fix.

> And the "EM64T based comment" is wrong because there are AMD based 
> vSMPs too.
Just got it as-is from the old Kconfig. Do you think it should be fixed
as well?

> -Andi

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