Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 01/24] arm: initial Xen support

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Mon Aug 06 2012 - 06:46:30 EST


On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 08:35:51AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 19:27 +0100, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On 07/26/2012 10:33 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > - Basic hypervisor.h and interface.h definitions.
> > > > - Skelethon enlighten.c, set xen_start_info to an empty struct.
> > > > - Do not limit xen_initial_domain to PV guests.
> > > >
> > > > The new code only compiles when CONFIG_XEN is set, that is going to be
> > > > added to arch/arm/Kconfig in a later patch.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > arch/arm/Makefile | 1 +
> > > > arch/arm/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 6 +++
> > > > arch/arm/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h | 19 ++++++++++
> > > > arch/arm/include/asm/xen/interface.h | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >
> > > These headers don't seem particularly ARM specific. Could they be moved
> > > to asm-generic or include/linux?
> >
> > Or perhaps include/xen.
> >
> > A bunch of it also looks like x86 specific stuff which has crept in.
> > e.g. PARAVIRT_LAZY_FOO and paravirt_get_lazy_mode() are arch/x86
> > specific and shouldn't be called from common code (and aren't, AFAICT).
>
> The could be moved out..
>

they are called from grant-table.c; sigh, I was the one to add them there :-(

interface.h is ARM specific, except for the pvclock structs, that in
fact are marked "XXX".

hypervisor.h is almost empty but I guess I could move out the following two
lines:

extern struct shared_info *HYPERVISOR_shared_info;
extern struct start_info *xen_start_info;

Considering that each arch is free to map them (or not) the way it
wants, I don't think is a good idea.
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