From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: "Michał Leszczyński" <michal.leszczynski@cert.pl>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
"Anthony PERARD" <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
"Tamas K Lengyel" <tamas@tklengyel.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] xen/domain: Add vmtrace_frames domain creation parameter
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:51:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6c3f76d-6ab0-54e5-c2f5-78aba7cc711f@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4ccc233-d006-1f7b-0c0a-8fd8034a25cd@citrix.com>
On 25.01.2021 18:17, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 25/01/2021 15:08, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 21.01.2021 22:27, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> --- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
>>> +++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
>>> @@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ struct vcpu
>>> /* vPCI per-vCPU area, used to store data for long running operations. */
>>> struct vpci_vcpu vpci;
>>>
>>> + struct {
>>> + struct page_info *buf;
>>> + } vmtrace;
>> While perhaps minor, I'm unconvinced "buf" is a good name
>> for a field of this type.
>
> Please suggest a better one then. This one is properly namespaced as
> v->vmtrace.buf which is the least bad option I could come up with.
"pg", "page", or "pages" are all names we use for variables and
fields of this type. I don't see at all how the namespacing
helps it - to me "v->vmtrace.buf" is still a pointer to the
actual buffer, not the struct page_info describing the 1st page
of it.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-21 21:27 [PATCH v7 00/10] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 01/10] xen+tools: Introduce XEN_SYSCTL_PHYSCAP_vmtrace Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:28 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-26 8:58 ` Julien Grall
2021-01-26 10:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 02/10] xen/domain: Add vmtrace_frames domain creation parameter Andrew Cooper
2021-01-25 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-25 17:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 10:51 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2021-01-29 16:37 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 03/10] tools/[lib]xl: Add vmtrace_buf_size parameter Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:29 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 04/10] xen/memory: Add a vmtrace_buf resource type Andrew Cooper
2021-01-25 16:31 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-26 7:37 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-26 9:58 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 10:30 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 05/10] x86/vmx: Add Intel Processor Trace support Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 13:35 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-29 22:08 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 06/10] xen/domctl: Add XEN_DOMCTL_vmtrace_op Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 14:18 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-29 23:01 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 07/10] tools/libxc: Add xc_vmtrace_* functions Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:29 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 08/10] tools/misc: Add xen-vmtrace tool Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:33 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-25 15:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 11:59 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-26 12:55 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 13:32 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-26 15:59 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 09/10] xen/vmtrace: support for VM forks Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 14:21 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-27 15:50 ` Lengyel, Tamas
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 10/10] x86/vm_event: Carry Processor Trace buffer offset in vm_event Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 14:27 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-29 23:22 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-29 23:40 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2021-02-01 8:55 ` Jan Beulich
2021-02-01 9:06 ` Andrew Cooper
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