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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/7][RFC] make xenguest save & restore functions

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/7][RFC] make xenguest save & restore functions reentrant
From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:39:41 +0000
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Keir Fraser wrote:
Another option would be for all users of the macros to have a 'xenguest_ctx'
structure, or whatever you call it. So e.g., in xc_resume:
 struct xenguest_ctx _ctx, *ctx = &_ctx;
 ctx->guest_width = ...
 /* Leave unnecessary/meaningless fields for this caller uninitialised. */

What do you think? The ctx struct can't be that big; we can just ignore
fields that make no sense outside save/restore (i.e., kind of split it into
general-purpose and private/application-specific fields); and it does keep
the macro invocations cleaner.

I'll give that a try. I don't think it's going to make that serie much nicer though.

--
Vincent

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