From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Move gfn_to_memslot() to kvm_host.h
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:47:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0F0087.7030300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120112104115.GA32021@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On 01/12/2012 12:41 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This moves __gfn_to_memslot() and search_memslots() from kvm_main.c to
> kvm_host.h to reduce the code duplication caused by the need for
> non-modular code in arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c to call
> gfn_to_memslot() in real mode.
>
> Rather than putting gfn_to_memslot() itself in a header, which would
> lead to increased code size, this puts __gfn_to_memslot() in a header.
> Then, the non-modular uses of gfn_to_memslot() are changed to call
> __gfn_to_memslot() instead. This way there is only one place in the
> source code that needs to be changed should the gfn_to_memslot()
> implementation need to be modified.
>
> On powerpc, the Book3S HV style of KVM has code that is called from
> real mode which needs to call gfn_to_memslot() and thus needs this.
> (Module code is allocated in the vmalloc region, which can't be
> accessed in real mode.)
>
>
> +static inline struct kvm_memory_slot *
> +search_memslots(struct kvm_memslots *slots, gfn_t gfn)
> +{
> + struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot;
> +
> + kvm_for_each_memslot(memslot, slots)
> + if (gfn >= memslot->base_gfn &&
> + gfn < memslot->base_gfn + memslot->npages)
> + return memslot;
> +
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct kvm_memory_slot *
> +__gfn_to_memslot(struct kvm_memslots *slots, gfn_t gfn)
> +{
> + return search_memslots(slots, gfn);
> +}
Please add a comment here explaining why these functions are inlined.
There's also the call to kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init(), which should be
changed to gfn_to_memslot(), to avoid code bloat.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-20 9:21 [PATCH] KVM: Move gfn_to_memslot() to kvm_host.h Paul Mackerras
2011-12-23 13:33 ` Alexander Graf
2011-12-26 13:22 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-02 15:23 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-02 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-12 10:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-01-12 14:57 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-12 15:47 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-01-13 6:09 ` [PATCH v3] " Paul Mackerras
2012-01-16 13:18 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 13:21 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 13:30 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 5:02 ` Paul Mackerras
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