Re: [RFC V2] xen: interface: introduce pvclk interface

[Peng Fan <van.freenix@gmail.com>]

Hi Jan,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 03:14:20AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 20.01.16 at 09:31, <van.freenix@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * Backend response
>> + *
>> + * cmd: command for operation on clk, same with the cmd in request.
>> + * id: clk id, same with the id in request.
>> + * success: indicate failure or success for the cmd.
>> + * rate: clock rate. Used for get rate.
>> + *
>> + * cmd and id are filled by backend and passed to frontend to
>> + * let frontend check whether the response is for the current
>> + * request or not.
>> + */
>> +struct xen_clkif_response {
>> +	uint32_t cmd;
>> +	uint32_t id;
>> +	uint32_t success;
>> +	uint64_t rate;
>> +};
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>This isn't 32-/64-bit clean. Question is whether echoing cmd is really
>needed.

As Juergen suggested, use a request id. I'll fix this in V3.
32-/64-bit unclean, I can not get you here (:

>
>Also naming a field "success" is pretty odd - is this mean to be a
>boolean? Better name it e.g. status, allowing for different (error)
>indicators.

As you suggested, how about `int status`? And in this clkif.h,
define different status value, such as `#define XEN_CLK_PREPARE_OK 0,
#define XEN_CLK_PREPARE_FAILURE -1`. The frontend and backend should
be aware of the status value.

>
>And what I'm missing throughout the file is some description of how
>clock events (interrupts?) are actually meant to make it into the
>guest.

I have a simple implementation v1 patch for linux, http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-01/msg01860.html.
You can see how it works.

Thanks,
Peng.

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>Jan
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