Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 05/12] coroutine: Add coroutines

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 01/22/2011 11:29 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Add functions to create coroutines and transfer control into a coroutine
> and back out again.
>
>
> +
> +struct Coroutine {
> +    struct coroutine co;
> +};
> +
>
> +/**
> + * Coroutine entry point
> + *
> + * When the coroutine is entered for the first time, opaque is passed in as an
> + * argument.
> + *
> + * When this function returns, the coroutine is destroyed automatically and the
> + * return value is passed back to the caller who last entered the coroutine.
> + */
> +typedef void * coroutine_fn CoroutineEntry(void *opaque);

The more modern style is to use the Coroutine structure as argument, and 
let the coroutine function use container_of() to obtain access to its 
own data structures.  Similarly it can store any return value there, 
avoiding casts to and from void pointers.

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