Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:44:32 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 03/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: use paravirt_nop to consistently mark no-op operations |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Add a _paravirt_nop function for use as a stub for no-op operations, > and paravirt_nop #defined void * version to make using it easier > (since all its uses are as a void *). > > This is useful to allow the patcher to automatically identify noop > operations so it can simply nop out the callsite.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> +void _paravirt_nop(void); > +#define paravirt_nop ((void *)_paravirt_nop)
but only as a cleanup of the current open-coded (void *) casts. My problem with this is that it loses the types. Not that there is much to check for, but still, this adds some assumptions about how function calls look like.
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