linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] KVM: arm64: selftest: Split arch

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Message-ID: <20230906-3f0318fa20365f9211998bae@orel>
Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2023 09:01:51 +0200
From:   Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
To:     Haibo Xu <xiaobo55x@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] KVM: arm64: selftest: Split arch_timer test code

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:44:26AM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 10:14 AM Haibo Xu <xiaobo55x@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:24 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com> wrote:
...
> > > > +
> > > > +enum guest_stage {
> > > > +     GUEST_STAGE_VTIMER_CVAL=1,
> > > > +     GUEST_STAGE_VTIMER_TVAL,
> > > > +     GUEST_STAGE_PTIMER_CVAL,
> > > > +     GUEST_STAGE_PTIMER_TVAL,
> > > > +     GUEST_STAGE_MAX,
> > > > +};
> > >
> > > This enum also belongs in aarch64/arch_timer.c
> > >
> >
> > Yes, it should be in aarch64/arch_timer.c
> >
> 
> After moving the above enum definition to aarch64/arch_timer.c, the
> below errors was reported
> while compiling kvm/arch_timer.o
> 
> include/timer_test.h:37:26: error: field ‘guest_stage’ has incomplete type
>    37 |         enum guest_stage guest_stage;
>         |                                        ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Since kvm/arch_timer.c was independent of kvm/aarch64/arch_timer.c
> during OBJ compiling,
> I think it may be not possible to move the enum definition to
> aarch64/arch_timer.c
> 
> If we keep the definition in this header file, we can enclose it with
> #ifdef __aarch64__ for aarch64 only.
>

Let's change struct test_vcpu_shared_data to

 struct test_vcpu_shared_data {
        int nr_iter;
        int guest_stage;
        uint64_t xcnt;
 };

and then let the aarch64 code treat guest_stage as an enum and the riscv
code can completely ignore it (no need to create an unused enum).

Thanks,
drew