On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 05:35:55PM +0000, Ben Gardon wrote: > In the interest of eventually splitting the Shadow MMU out of mmu.c, > start by moving some of the operations for manipulating pte_lists out of > mmu.c and into a new pair of files: rmap.c and rmap.h. > > No functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- [...] > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/rmap.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/rmap.h > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..059765b6e066 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/rmap.h > @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > + > +#ifndef __KVM_X86_MMU_RMAP_H > +#define __KVM_X86_MMU_RMAP_H > + > +#include <linux/kvm_host.h> > + > +/* make pte_list_desc fit well in cache lines */ > +#define PTE_LIST_EXT 14 > + > +/* > + * Slight optimization of cacheline layout, by putting `more' and `spte_count' > + * at the start; then accessing it will only use one single cacheline for > + * either full (entries==PTE_LIST_EXT) case or entries<=6. > + */ > +struct pte_list_desc { > + struct pte_list_desc *more; > + /* > + * Stores number of entries stored in the pte_list_desc. No need to be > + * u64 but just for easier alignment. When PTE_LIST_EXT, means full. > + */ > + u64 spte_count; > + u64 *sptes[PTE_LIST_EXT]; > +}; > + > +static struct kmem_cache *pte_list_desc_cache; The definition of pte_list_desc_cache needs to go in a C file since it's a global variable. Since it now needs to be accessed by more than once C file, drop the static. Then it can be accessed with extern. Since most of the code that sets up and deals with pte_list_desc_cache is still in mmu.c, my vote is to keep the definition there. i.e. mmu.c: struct kmem_cache *pte_list_desc_cache; rmap.c extern struct kmem_cache *pte_list_desc_cache; And no need for anything in rmap.h.