Re: [PATCH] KVM: forward declare structs in kvm_types.h

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Fri Aug 29 2014 - 08:47:08 EST


2014-08-29 14:01+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> Opaque KVM structs are useful for prototypes in asm/kvm_host.h, to avoid
> "'struct foo' declared inside parameter list" warnings (and consequent
> breakage due to conflicting types).
>
> Move them from individual files to a generic place in linux/kvm_types.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>

(Inclusion of <linux/types.h> seems to be piggybacking, but is a nice
thing to do :)

And I'd apply these changes: (Definitely the first hunk.)

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 33d8d0a..e098dce 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ static inline bool is_error_page(struct page *page)
#define KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID 0
#define KVM_IRQFD_RESAMPLE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID 1

-struct kvm;
-struct kvm_vcpu;
extern struct kmem_cache *kvm_vcpu_cache;

extern spinlock_t kvm_lock;
@@ -325,8 +323,6 @@ struct kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry {
struct hlist_node link;
};

-struct kvm_irq_routing_table;
-
#ifndef KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS
#define KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS 0
#endif
@@ -1036,8 +1032,6 @@ static inline bool kvm_check_request(int req, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

extern bool kvm_rebooting;

-struct kvm_device_ops;
-
struct kvm_device {
struct kvm_device_ops *ops;
struct kvm *kvm;
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_types.h b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
index 1d6daca..53c4f20 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@

struct kvm;
struct kvm_async_pf;
+struct kvm_device_ops;
struct kvm_interrupt;
+struct kvm_irq_routing_table;
struct kvm_memory_slot;
struct kvm_one_reg;
struct kvm_run;
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