Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC: 0/2] patch for QEMU HPET periodic timer emulation to alleviate time drift

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On 02/07/2011 05:17 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2011-02-07 16:13, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 02/07/2011 05:01 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>  typedef struct PeriodicTimer PeriodicTimer;
>>
>>  /**
>>   * @accumulated_ticks:  the number of unacknowledged ticks in total
>>  since the creation of the timer
>>   **/
>
>  Outdated comment even before the code is committed.  Will be hard to beat.
>
>>  typedef void (PeriodicTimerFunc)(void *opaque);
>
>  s/void *opaque/PeriodicTimer *timer/
>
>  Down with opaques!

What else? DeviceState?

typedef void (PeriodicTimerFunc)(PeriodicTimer *timer);

the callback then uses container_of() to get whatever its internal data structure is from the embedded PeriodicTimer.

>>
>>  PeriodicTimer *periodic_timer_new(PeriodicTimerFunc *cb, void *opaque);
>>
>
>  void periodic_timer_init(PeriodicTimer *timer, PeriodicTimerFunc *cb);
>
>  It is better to embed than to reference.

Likely, though this diverges from exiting QEMUTimer.

That's the more modern style. Saves allocations and dereferences, and is more type safe.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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