From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	philippe.gabriel@citrix.com,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] gcov: add new interface and 3.4 and 4.7 format support
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:12:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161010131219.GQ3687@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57FBAC3402000078001162A0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 06:56:52AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 10.10.16 at 14:23, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On 10/10/16 12:56, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>> On 10.10.16 at 11:40, <wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote:
> >>> +struct type_info {
> >>> +    int ctr_type;
> >> Can this be negative?
> > 
> > This code is largely imported straight from Linux.  We should not
> > needlessly deviate.
> 
> Hmm, in that case some of the constification I did ask for on v1 and
> which is now there should also be undone? Perhaps for such a
I'm fine with either way. Since the modification is quite heavy, adding
some constification is just minor issue.
> purpose it would help if the original Linux files got first imported
> verbatim (without any review comments, and without getting wired
> up), in order to then be modified minimally to build/work on Xen?
> 
This would be ugly because the code used is only a small portion of what
Linux has (we would end up deleting most of the code -- memory
allocation, seqfile ops etc), and the modification to adapt it to Xen is
quite heavy because the interface is entirely different (procfs vs
hypercall, customised packed file).
Wei.
> Jan
> 
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10  9:40 [PATCH v2 0/9] Rework gcov support in Xen Wei Liu
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] Kconfig: use tab instead of space Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:21   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] Kconfig: add BROKEN config Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:22   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] xen: delete gcno files in clean target Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:23   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] xen, tools: rip out old gcov implementation Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:24   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] gcov: add new interface and 3.4 and 4.7 format support Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:56   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 12:23     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-10 12:56       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 13:12         ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-10-10 13:11     ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10 14:43       ` Wei Liu
2016-10-11 10:31   ` [PATCH v3] " Wei Liu
2016-10-12 12:42     ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:06       ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 13:11         ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:24         ` George Dunlap
2016-10-12 13:26           ` George Dunlap
2016-10-12 13:31             ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 13:33             ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:34             ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-12 13:41               ` George Dunlap
2016-10-12 13:43                 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-10-12 13:29           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 13:40             ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 13:46               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 13:50                 ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 13:23       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 13:31         ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 13:44           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-12 14:08             ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 14:17             ` Martin Pohlack
2016-10-12 16:21               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-13  8:05                 ` Martin Pohlack
2016-10-12 15:33       ` Wei Liu
2016-10-12 15:42         ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-12 17:07           ` Wei Liu
2016-10-13  8:29             ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-13  8:49               ` Wei Liu
2016-10-13  9:15                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-13  9:20                   ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] gcov: userspace tools to extract and split gcov data Wei Liu
2016-10-10 15:44   ` Ian Jackson
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] Config.mk: expand cc-ver a bit Wei Liu
2016-10-10 11:57   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] Config.mk: introduce cc-ifversion Wei Liu
2016-10-10 12:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 13:18     ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10 13:22       ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 13:24         ` Wei Liu
2016-10-10  9:40 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] gcov: provide the capability to select gcov format automatically Wei Liu
2016-10-10 12:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-10-10 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Rework gcov support in Xen Ian Jackson
2016-10-10 15:58   ` Jan Beulich
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