From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>, Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/17] xen/hypfs: move per-node function pointers into a dedicated struct
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:51:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e0a7a74-1d00-7f9f-e595-27f441c5c200@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ddee6b8-36bb-63ae-2221-78c1768b3355@suse.com>
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On 03.12.20 10:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 03.12.2020 09:47, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> On 02.12.20 16:36, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 01.12.2020 09:21, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> static int hypfs_write(struct hypfs_entry *entry,
>>>> XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_PARAM(void) uaddr, unsigned long ulen)
>>>
>>> As a tangent, is there a reason these write functions don't take
>>> handles of "const void"? (I realize this likely is nothing that
>>> wants addressing right here.)
>>
>> Uh, this is harder than I thought.
>>
>> guest_handle_cast() doesn't handle const guest handle types currently:
>>
>> hypfs.c:447:58: error: unknown type name ‘const_void’; did you mean ‘const’?
>> ret = hypfs_write(entry, guest_handle_cast(arg3, const_void),
>> arg4);
>> ^
>> /home/gross/xen/unstable/xen/include/xen/guest_access.h:26:5: note: in
>> definition of macro ‘guest_handle_cast’
>> type *_x = (hnd).p; \
>> ^~~~
>>
>> Currently my ideas would be to either:
>>
>> - add a new macro for constifying a guest handle (type -> const_type)
>> - add a new macro for casting a guest handle to a const_type
>> - add typedefs for the const_* types (typedef const x const_x)
>> - open code the cast
>>
>> Or am I missing an existing variant?
>
> I don't think you are. Both of your first two suggestions look good
> to me - ultimately we may want to have both anyway, eventually. For
> its (presumed) type safety I may have a slight preference for
> option 1, albeit afaics guest_handle_cast() doesn't allow
> conversion between arbitrary types either (only to/from void).
>
> It's quite unfortunate that this requires an explicit cast in the
> first place, but what do you do.
Right.
I'm going with variant 2, as variant 1 is not really easy to achieve
without specifying the basic type as a macro parameter - which will
basically be variant 2.
Juergen
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-01 8:21 [PATCH v2 00/17] xen: support per-cpupool scheduling granularity Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] xen/cpupool: add cpu to sched_res_mask when removing it from cpupool Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] xen/cpupool: add missing bits for per-cpupool scheduling granularity Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] xen/cpupool: sort included headers in cpupool.c Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] xen/cpupool: switch cpupool id to unsigned Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:55 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 9:01 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-01 9:07 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 9:59 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 14:48 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-07 15:00 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-04 15:52 ` Dario Faggioli
2020-12-07 9:58 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-07 15:21 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] xen/cpupool: switch cpupool list to normal list interface Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 9:12 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 9:18 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 16:13 ` Dario Faggioli
2020-12-04 16:16 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 16:25 ` Dario Faggioli
2020-12-04 16:56 ` Dario Faggioli
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] xen/cpupool: use ERR_PTR() for returning error cause from cpupool_create() Juergen Gross
2020-12-02 8:58 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-02 9:56 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-02 10:46 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-02 10:58 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 16:29 ` Dario Faggioli
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] xen/cpupool: support moving domain between cpupools with different granularity Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] docs: fix hypfs path documentation Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] xen/hypfs: move per-node function pointers into a dedicated struct Juergen Gross
2020-12-02 15:36 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-02 15:41 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-03 8:47 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-03 9:12 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-03 9:51 ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] xen/hypfs: pass real failure reason up from hypfs_get_entry() Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] xen/hypfs: add getsize() and findentry() callbacks to hypfs_funcs Juergen Gross
2020-12-02 15:42 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-02 15:51 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-03 8:12 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-03 9:39 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 8:58 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-04 11:14 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] xen/hypfs: add new enter() and exit() per node callbacks Juergen Gross
2020-12-03 14:59 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-03 15:14 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-03 15:29 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-04 8:33 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 8:30 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-04 8:35 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] xen/hypfs: support dynamic hypfs nodes Juergen Gross
2020-12-03 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-03 15:18 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] xen/hypfs: add support for id-based dynamic directories Juergen Gross
2020-12-03 15:44 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-04 8:52 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 9:16 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-04 13:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-07 7:54 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] xen/cpupool: add cpupool directories Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 9:00 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 9:03 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-02 15:46 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-03 14:46 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-03 15:11 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 9:10 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-04 11:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-04 11:54 ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] xen/cpupool: add scheduling granularity entry to cpupool entries Juergen Gross
2020-12-01 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] xen/cpupool: make per-cpupool sched-gran hypfs node writable Juergen Gross
2020-12-04 23:53 ` [PATCH v2 00/17] xen: support per-cpupool scheduling granularity Andrew Cooper
2020-12-05 7:41 ` Jürgen Groß
2020-12-07 9:00 ` Jan Beulich
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