Re: [PATCH for-4.19 v2] tools/xen-cpuid: switch to use cpu-policy defined names

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 03:16:54PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 02.05.2024 13:49, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > Like it was done recently for libxl, switch to using the auto-generated feature
> > names by the processing of cpufeatureset.h, this allows removing the open-coded
> > feature names, and unifies the feature naming with libxl and the hypervisor.
> > 
> > Introduce a newly auto-generated array that contains the feature names indexed
> > at featureset bit position, otherwise using the existing INIT_FEATURE_NAMES
> > would require iterating over the array elements until a match with the expected
> > bit position is found.
> > 
> > Note that leaf names need to be kept, as the current auto-generated data
> > doesn't contain the leaf names.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> except that ...

Thanks.

> 
> > --- a/xen/tools/gen-cpuid.py
> > +++ b/xen/tools/gen-cpuid.py
> > @@ -475,6 +475,32 @@ def write_results(state):
> >      state.output.write(
> >  """}
> >  
> > +""")
> > +
> > +    state.output.write(
> > +"""
> > +#define INIT_FEATURE_NAME_ARRAY { \\
> > +""")
> > +
> > +    try:
> > +        _tmp = state.names.iteritems()
> > +    except AttributeError:
> > +        _tmp = state.names.items()
> 
> ... can't figure what this try/except is needed for. Hopefully someone with
> better Python foo than mine can take a look.

If I understood this correctly (which I might have not, I know very
little Python), iteritems() method was removed in Python 3, and what
used to be iteritems() in Python 2 is items() on Python 3.

Regards, Roger.