Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915/gvt: make gvt oblivious of kvmgt data structures

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On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 12:24 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jan 2020, Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
[...]
> > +	/* Hypervisor-specific device state. */
> > +	void *vdev;
> 
> I have no clue about the relative merits of the patch, but you can use
> the actual type for the pointer with a forward declaration. You don't
> need the definition for that.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> struct kvmgt_vdev;
> ...
> 	struct kvmgt_vdev *vdev;

The goal here is to make the GVT code independent of the hypervisor backend.
Different hypervisor backends need to keep different per-device state, so using
the KVM type here defeats the purpose.

I assume this is not only useful for us, but also for other hypervisor backends,
such as Xen or 3rd-party hypervisors.

Julian


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