Re: [PATCH 05/10] paravirt: add new PARAVIRT_FULL config item

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 05/19/2017 11:47 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Add a new config item PARAVIRT_FULL. It will be used to guard the
> pv_*_ops functions used by fully paravirtualized guests (Xen pv-guests
> and lguest) only.
>
> Kernels not meant to support those guest types will be able to use many
> operations without paravirt abstraction while still supporting all the
> other paravirt features.
>
> For now just add the new Kconfig option and select it for XEN_PV and
> LGUEST_GUEST. Add paravirt_full.c, paravirt_full.h and
> paravirt_types_full.h which will contain the necessary implementation
> parts of the pv guest specific paravirt functions.

Is it not possible to just 'ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIT_FULL' the (ir)relevant
parts of paravirt.[ch] and paravirt_types.c?

Separating structures and files into pv and pvfull seems somewhat
arbitrary (.flush_tlb_others in patch 8 being a good example of one type
of guest deciding to use something that normally would be considered
part of a pvfull-type structure).

-boris