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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are comp
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Blue Swirl |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once |
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Fri, 2 Apr 2010 19:18:04 +0300 |
On 4/2/10, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > > qemu-kvm.h references CPUState and includes cpu.h, so with the latest
> > > changes all files that include qemu-kvm.h break, even if they don't
> require
> > > qemu-kvm.h. With this patch they instead get the opaque definition via
> > > hw/hw.h (which includes cpu-common.h), and qemu-kvm.h can avoid
> including
> > > cpu.h.
> > >
> >
> > This is why I added #ifndef NEED_CPU_H to kvm.h.
> >
>
> Yes, but adding NEED_CPU_H everywhere is just as bad, or worse.
I fully agree that devices should not use NEED_CPU_H.
> >
> > > Another example is the new apic.h file created by Blue Swirl. It
> > > references CPUState. It includes apic_get_irq_delivered, so I placed
> > > apic_set_irq_delivered there too. But apic_set_irq_delivered is used by
> > > i8259.c which is compiled once.
> > >
> >
> > But i8259.c is compiled per target, grep Makefile.target?
> >
>
> Hmm, that was something else, but apic.h was it. :-)
As a concrete example, qemu-kvm's apic.c and ours differ w.r.t.
CPUState use only in kvm_save/load_lapic. But these functions could
just as easily take APICState* as their parameter and the need to pass
CPUState is gone.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once, Anthony Liguori, 2010/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once, Anthony Liguori, 2010/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once, Anthony Liguori, 2010/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once, Paolo Bonzini, 2010/04/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide opaque CPUState to files that are compiled once, Anthony Liguori, 2010/04/02