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[Xen-devel] Re: One question to compat model

To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: One question to compat model
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:13:02 +0100
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On 12/05/2010 09:50, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> You can't disable CONFIG_COMPAT anymore, but I think you should
>> be able to tweak the CONFIG_COMPAT section in
>> xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/mce.c in a way to allow your new code to
>> be built without doing anything compat-related for the new
>> structures. But maybe removing the domctl.h dependency already
>> clarifies matters.
> 
> Yes, it should be ok. But a curios question is, why the xenctl_cpumap has to
> be defined in domctl.h. It's simply a helper function. Now I have to work like
> XENPF_getidletime, passing two parameters (nr_cpus and the bitmap pointer),
> combine them in hypervisor to xenctl_cpumap and then call the xenctl_cpumap
> code. And the same to user space tools.

Whoever implemented XENPF_getidletime decided to stuff a fake xenctl_cpumap
struct within Xen rather than properly refactor the public headers. There's
no reason not to move xenctl_cpumap out into xen.h.

 -- Keir



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