[PATCH v3 12/19] arm/arm64: KVM: refactor/wrap vgic_set/get_attr()

[andre.przywara@arm.com (Andre Przywara)]

On 05/11/14 10:27, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi Christoffer,
>
> On 04/11/14 19:30, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 05:26:47PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>>> vgic_set_attr() and vgic_get_attr() contain both code specific for
>>> the emulated GIC as well as code for the userland facing, generic
>>> part of the GIC.
>>> Split the guest GIC facing code of from the generic part to allow
>>> easier splitting later.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
>>
>> It's not really clear to me which data is specific to the emulated gic
>> and which is not or why you have to do this (yet), for example, the
>> _common function is now dealing with the GRP_ADDR case which is very
>> GICv2 specific (so far).  But I assume this will make sense as I
>> progress through the series.
>
> Admittedly this is somewhat of a corner case. Actually I tried to keep
> as much code common (in vgic.c) as possible, and it was possible without
> much pain for GRP_ADDR and kvm_vgic_addr.
> Also I consider this call part of the switching and connecting
> functionality of the VGIC.
> Looking at the code again I think I had it in -emul.c before, but
> decided to move it back for some reason (probably some other code
> dependency which needed to be exposed). So unless I find some time ;-)
> and a good reason to move it I tend to keep it here.

... just found that kvm_vgic_addr() is not static, but also called from
the (now legacy) KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR ioctl. So it was causing more
churn to move it than it gave us clean separation.

Cheers,
Andre.

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