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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 07/17] libxc/restore: STATIC_DATA_END inference for v2 compatibility


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Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH v2 07/17] libxc/restore: STATIC_DATA_END 
inference for v2 compatibility"):
> On 24/02/2020 17:32, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > These 17 lines appears twice, in basically identical form.  Could it
> > be refactored ?
> 
> Not really, no.
> 
> The error handling (i.e. half of those 17 lines) is different, making it
> somewhat awkward to fit into a static inline.

You could handle that with a small bit of code around one of the call
sites to adjust the error handling.  (Also, what a mess, but I guess
we're here now...)

> More importantly however, by design, common code can't call
> arch-specific code without a restore_ops hook.  Deduping these would
> require breaking the restriction which is currently doing a decent job
> of keeping x86-isms out of common code.

I'm afraid you're going to have to explain that to me at a bit greater
length.  The biggest thing that is confusing me about your statement
here is that your patch is indeed adding x86-specific code to a common
file.  But also I don't understand the comment about restore_ops
hooks - do you mean something in restore_callbacks ?

Thanks,
Ian.

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