Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-next v3 06/22] x86/traps: move PV hypercall handlers to pv/traps.c

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 02.06.17 at 13:01, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 05:45:14AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 31.05.17 at 13:14, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:59:31PM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> >>> On 30.05.17 at 19:40, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On 29/05/17 16:40, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> >>>>> On 18.05.17 at 19:09, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >>> The following handlers are moved:
>> >> >>> 1. do_set_trap_table
>> >> >> This one makes sense to move to pv/traps.c, but ...
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> 2. do_set_debugreg
>> >> >>> 3. do_get_debugreg
>> >> >>> 4. do_fpu_taskswitch
>> >> >> ... none of these do. I could see them go into pv/hypercall.c,
>> >> >> but I could also see that file dealing intentionally only with
>> >> >> everything hypercall related except individual handlers. Andrew,
>> >> >> do you have any opinion or thoughts here?
>> >> > 
>> >> > Despite its name, traps.c deals with mostly low level exception
>> >> > handling, so I am not completely convinced that do_set_trap_table()
>> >> > would logically live in traps.c
>> >> 
>> >> I can see this being the case for traps.c, but pv/traps.c? There's
>> >> not much _low level_ exception handling that's PV-specific. But I
>> >> certainly don't mind such relatively small hypercall handlers to be
>> >> lumped together into some other file, ...
>> >> 
>> >> > I'd also prefer not to mix these into hypercall.c.  The best I can
>> >> > suggest is pv/domain.c, but even that isn't great.
>> >> > 
>> >> > Sorry for being unhelpful.  I'm not sure pv/misc-hypercalls.c is a
>> >> > suitable name either.
>> >> 
>> >> ... be it this name or some other one (if we can think of a better
>> >> alternative). Thinking of it: The currently present file is named
>> >> "hypercall.c" - how about "hypercalls.c"?
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > Well I don't think moving them into hypercall(s).c is nice either.
>> > 
>> > Since you expressed the idea of using iret.c for do_iret, maybe we can
>> > use debugreg.c and fpu_taskswitch.c ?
>> 
>> I did consider this too, but some of these are really small, and
>> while is dislike overly large files, I also don't think files with just
>> one or two dozens of actual code lines are very useful to have.
>> 
> 
> TBH I don't really see a problem with that approach -- we have clear_page.S,
> copy_page.S and gpr_switch.S which don't get lumped together into one
> file.

I view C files slightly differently from assembly ones in this regard.

> But if you don't like that, I will just put those small handlers
> into hypercall.c and change the comment of that file to:
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/pv/hypercall.c b/xen/arch/x86/pv/hypercall.c
> index 7c5e5a629d..b0c9e01268 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/pv/hypercall.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/pv/hypercall.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  
> /****************************************************************************
> **
>   * arch/x86/pv/hypercall.c
>   *
> - * PV hypercall dispatching routines
> + * PV hypercall dispatching routines and misc hypercalls

As indicated before, I don't really like the idea of specific
hypercall handler being put here. I did suggest hypercalls.c
as a possible place for one which don't fit elsewhere.

Andrew, do you have any specific opinion both on the specific
situation here as well as the broader question of file granularity?

Jan


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