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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH v1 03/10] xen/arm: move vgic data to vgic driver



On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 14:50 +0530, Vijay Kilari wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 13:51 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > ---
> >> >  xen/arch/arm/vgic.c          |   35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >> >  xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h |   13 ++-----------
> >> >  2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c b/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c
> >> > index d2a13fb..694a15c 100644
> >> > --- a/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c
> >> > +++ b/xen/arch/arm/vgic.c
> >> > @@ -35,6 +35,15 @@
> >> >  /* Number of ranks of interrupt registers for a domain */
> >> >  #define DOMAIN_NR_RANKS(d) (((d)->arch.vgic.nr_lines+31)/32)
> >> >
> >> > +/* Represents state corresponding to a block of 32 interrupts */
> >> > +struct vgic_irq_rank {
> >> > +    spinlock_t lock; /* Covers access to all other members of this 
> >> > struct */
> >> > +    uint32_t ienable, iactive, ipend, pendsgi;
> >> > +    uint32_t icfg[2];
> >> > +    uint32_t ipriority[8];
> >> > +    uint32_t itargets[8];
> >> > +};
> >> > +
> >>
> >> I would move the definition in a vgic_v2.h
> >
> OK
> 
> > Is there going to be lots of this stuff which is different for the two?
> > I'd rather wait and see how unwieldy gic.h gets first.
> 
> For now, the difference is in v3 uint32_t  itargets[8] is replaced
> with u64 itargets[32]

But the rest of the state remains the same?

If that is the case then I don't think there is any reason to split this
struct into v2 and v3 versions. Just keep a single struct with the
larger itargets using v3 semantics and have the v2 driver do the obvious
packing and unpacking.

> may be for v4 it other registers might differ

Lets cross that bridge when we come to it.

Ian.


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