[PATCH v2 21/21] arm64: KVM: Remove weak attributes

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Dec 2 09:52:51 PST 2015


On 02/12/15 16:21, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 03:21:49PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 02/12/15 11:47, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:50:15PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> As we've now switched to the new world switch implementation,
>>>> remove the weak attributes, as nobody is supposed to override
>>>> it anymore.
>>>
>>> Why not remove the aliases and change the callers?
>>
>> This is likely to be a bigger patch, and it would affect the 32bit as
>> well. So far, I'm choosing to keep things the same. Another solution
>> would be to completely drop the aliases, and just rename the new
>> function to have the old names.
>>
>> I don't mind either way.
>>
> I didn't think of the 32-bit side.  I think eventually we should get rid
> of the aliases and just have the funcitons named as they are called, but
> there's no rush.  We can wait until we've the done the 32-bit side if
> you prefer.

Probably safest. We're already changing a lot of things. Hopefully for
4.6 I'll have the 32bit side sorted.

	M.
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