Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] tools/libs: decouple more from mini-os

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Juergen Gross, le dim. 16 janv. 2022 09:23:43 +0100, a ecrit:
> This small series removes some hard coupling of the Xen build with some
> Mini-OS internals, especially the struct file layout and the internal
> organization of the file handling.
> 
> This series depends on the Mini-OS series posted recently:
> 
> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2022-01/threads.html#00635
> 
> The main idea is to no longer have Xen library specific structures
> inside struct file, or to let struct file layout depend on the
> configuration of Mini-OS.
> 
> All Xen libraries needing a hook in struct file should use the now
> available generic dev pointer and allocate the needed data dynamically.
> 
> Additionally Xen libraries should get the pointer of struct file via
> the new get_file_from_fd() function instead of accessing directly the
> files[] array, which might go away in future (e.g. in order to support
> dynamic allocation of struct file as needed).
> 
> Via using alloc_file_type() the libs provide a function vector in
> order to enable Mini-OS to remove the dedicated callbacks into the
> libs via known function names and replacing them to use the new
> vector.

Thanks!