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From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/24] x86/emul: Clean up the naming of the retire union
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:05:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <059ae34db6a54561b589a28d57504352@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dc470d3-491c-0421-b977-2f3a1e05602e@citrix.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Cooper
> Sent: 30 November 2016 14:02
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>; Xen-devel <xen-
> devel@lists.xen.org>
> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/24] x86/emul: Clean up the naming of the retire
> union
> 
> On 30/11/16 13:58, Paul Durrant wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Andrew Cooper [mailto:andrew.cooper3@citrix.com]
> >> Sent: 30 November 2016 13:50
> >> To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
> >> Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>; Jan Beulich
> >> <JBeulich@suse.com>; Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
> >> Subject: [PATCH v3 07/24] x86/emul: Clean up the naming of the retire
> union
> >>
> >> Rename byte to raw, as the field being a single byte long is an
> >> implementation
> >> detail.  Make the bitfields part of an anonymous struct to remove the
> .flags
> >> qualifier.  Change the types of the flags to being booleans, to match their
> >> use.
> >>
> > Is it legitimate to use a bool in a bitfield?
> 
> Yes.  Why wouldn't it be?
> 

They always used to be restricted to int or unsigned int. Looks like this was relaxed in C99.

> > Also, anonymous unions are not part of C99 AFAIK... are we now stipulating
> something more recent?
> 
> We used gnu99 for as long as I can remember, and we have other examples
> of this pattern already in Xen.
> 

If there's precedent then that's fine.

Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>

> ~Andrew

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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-30 13:50 [PATCH for-4.9 v3 00/24] XSA-191 followup Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 01/24] x86/shadow: Fix #PFs from emulated writes crossing a page boundary Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 02/24] x86/emul: Drop X86EMUL_CMPXCHG_FAILED Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 03/24] x86/emul: Simplfy emulation state setup Andrew Cooper
2016-12-08  6:34   ` George Dunlap
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 04/24] x86/emul: Rename hvm_trap to x86_event and move it into the emulation infrastructure Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 05/24] x86/emul: Rename HVM_DELIVER_NO_ERROR_CODE to X86_EVENT_NO_EC Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 06/24] x86/pv: Implement pv_inject_{event, page_fault, hw_exception}() Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 10:06   ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 07/24] x86/emul: Clean up the naming of the retire union Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:58   ` Paul Durrant
2016-11-30 14:02     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 14:05       ` Paul Durrant [this message]
2016-11-30 16:43         ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-01 10:08   ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 08/24] x86/emul: Correct the behaviour of pop %ss and interrupt shadowing Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 10:18   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-01 10:51     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 11:19       ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 09/24] x86/emul: Provide a wrapper to x86_emulate() to ASSERT() certain behaviour Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 10:40   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-01 10:58     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 11:21       ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 10/24] x86/emul: Always use fault semantics for software events Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 17:55   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-12-01 10:53   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-01 11:15     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 11:23       ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 11/24] x86/emul: Implement singlestep as a retire flag Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 14:28   ` Paul Durrant
2016-12-01 11:16   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-01 11:23     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 11:33       ` Tim Deegan
2016-12-01 12:05       ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 12/24] x86/emul: Remove opencoded exception generation Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 13/24] x86/emul: Rework emulator event injection Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 14:26   ` Paul Durrant
2016-12-01 11:35   ` Tim Deegan
2016-12-01 12:31   ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 14/24] x86/vmx: Use hvm_{get, set}_segment_register() rather than vmx_{get, set}_segment_register() Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 15/24] x86/hvm: Reposition the modification of raw segment data from the VMCB/VMCS Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 16/24] x86/emul: Avoid raising faults behind the emulators back Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 17/24] x86/pv: " Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 11:50   ` Tim Deegan
2016-12-01 12:57   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-01 13:12     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 13:27       ` Jan Beulich
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 18/24] x86/shadow: " Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 11:39   ` Tim Deegan
2016-12-01 11:40     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-01 13:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-01 13:15     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 19/24] x86/hvm: Extend the hvm_copy_*() API with a pagefault_info pointer Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 20/24] x86/hvm: Reimplement hvm_copy_*_nofault() in terms of no pagefault_info Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 21/24] x86/hvm: Rename hvm_copy_*_guest_virt() to hvm_copy_*_guest_linear() Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 22/24] x86/hvm: Avoid __hvm_copy() raising #PF behind the emulators back Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 14:29   ` Paul Durrant
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 23/24] x86/emul: Prepare to allow use of system segments for memory references Andrew Cooper
2016-11-30 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 24/24] x86/emul: Use system-segment relative memory accesses Andrew Cooper

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