[Xen-devel] [RfC / Patch] xenner: event channel implementation.

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

  Hi,

Merging the xen bits seems to be on a good way.  Time to look at 
un-bitrotting the xenner bits ...
Here is a first patch for comments.  Not useful on its own.  Right now 
I'm looking more for comments on the way the integration is done.
Event channels on Xen are managed by calling the xc_evtchn_* functions 
provided by libxenctrl.  The library in turn does does hypercalls into 
the xen kernel.  xenner obviously has to provide an alternative 
implementation for these functions.  Also for others.  This patch starts 
with just the event channels though.
It works this way:  There is a struct with function pointers to the 
event channel functions.  The struct can be switched at runtime to the 
xen or xenner version of the functions depending on the qemu operation mode.
The struct is named "xc_evtchn", the function pointer are named like the 
xc_evtchn_* functions, but without the xc_evtchn_ prefix, i.e. 
"xc_evtchn_open(...)" becomes xc_evtchn.open(...).
The function calls in the source code (xen backend drivers) are not 
changed directly, but using a include file with a bunch of #defines. 
That way I don't have to change s/xc_evtchn_/xc_evtchn./ all over the 
place.  Also xenner can easily be disabled at compile time and the 
indirect function pointer calls simply go away then.
Comments?

cheers,
  Gerd

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