[OpenAFS-devel] Please add configure option to switch off the system call table patching in Linux

[Russ Allbery]

Jakub Witkowski <jpw@wszib.edu.pl> writes:

> Syscall patching does not work in both Xen and KVM enabled kernels and I
> expect that it will become increasingly dysfunctional as new kernel
> releases will add more virtualization-centric changes.

OpenAFS doesn't work at all with Xen-enabled kernels right now, unless
someone committed the patch to switch from spin_lock_irq to
spin_lock_irqsave and avoid the symbol enabling paravirt makes GPL-only.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>