On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 14:26 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Avi, > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> The point is to follow Linux kernel conventions and idioms (and share > >> code) as much as possible so it's familiar to devs who are already > >> working on the kernel. That's why section tricks seem more appropriate > >> than using constructor to me. Or is there some technical advantage to > >> using constructors? > > > > You get to reuse infrastructure that's already there. > > > > Things like using sections and s/uint64_t/u64/ look anti-reuse to me. > > Userspace isn't the kernel, for better or for worse. > > Not really. The type thing is pretty much required once you start > using kernel code (as we learned the hard way). > > Btw, constructor attribute doesn't really seem like a good fit for > "late_initcall" type of thing: > > The constructor attribute causes the function to be called > automatically before execution enters main ()
You could add a small constructor function that'll add a pointer to the real initialization function to a list which will get called after we get everything initialized and ready. -- Sasha. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
