In this RFC I would like to ask the community their thoughts on how we can best handle splitting architecture-specific calls. I would like to address the following: 1. How do we want to split architecture calls? Different object files per platform? Separate function calls within the same object file? 2. How do we address dummy functions? If we have a function call that is used for one or more platforms, but is not used in another, what should we do for this case? I've given an example of splitting an architecture call in my patch with run_as_guest() being split into different implementations for x86 and arm64 in separate object files, sharing a single header. Another suggestion from Michael (michael.cheng@xxxxxxxxx) involved using a single object file, a single header, and splitting various functions calls via ifdefs in the header file. I would appreciate any input on how we can avoid scaling issues when including multiple architectures and multiple functions (as the number of function calls will inevitably increase with more architectures). v2: Revised to use kernel's platform-splitting scheme. v3: Revised to use simple if-else structure. v4: Modified into more arch-neutral split. v5: Rebased on top of the run_as_guest -> i915_run_as_guest changes Casey Bowman (1): Split i915_run_as_guest into x86 and non-x86 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_utils.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) -- 2.25.1
