Re: Is: PVH + ARM new hypercalls. Was: Re: [PATCH]: PVH: specify xen features strings cleany for PVH

[Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:48:12 +0000
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> >>> On 29.01.13 at 03:57, Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
> >>> wrote:
> > On xen side I added the ifdef:
> > 
> > #if __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__ < 0x00040300
> >     unsigned long gdt_frames[16], gdt_ents; /* GDT (machine frames,
> > # ents) */
> > #else
> >     union {
> >         struct {
> >             /* GDT (machine frames, # ents) */
> >             unsigned long gdt_frames[16], gdt_ents;
> >         } pv;
> >         struct {
> >             /* PVH: GDTR addr and size */
> >             unsigned long gdtaddr, gdtsz;
> >         } pvh;
> >     } u;
> > #endif
> > 
> > but it doesn't matter on linux side, so up to you.
> 
> But I'd still prefer for this to go away again - you could simply use
> gdt_frames[0] for gdtaddr and gdt_ents for the (normalized)
> gdtsz.

That was my patch version 1 during linux patch review. Then the reviewer
suggested to make it a union.

> And if you nevertheless go the union route, call it "gdt" instead
> of "u" and drop the gdt/gdt_ prefixes from the member names
> (yes, I know, grepping and cscoping for such member is more
> difficult, but I continue to see more advantage in avoiding the
> redundancy).

That was my patch version 2, where I called it gdt and another reviewer
suggested to change to u. So I changed it to u.

It's gone thru enough iterations that I'd like to leave as is. Thank
you in advance for your compromise in helping us mortals grep/cscope 
to learn code.

Thanks,
Mukesh