On 5/30/24 12:42, Alex Bennée wrote:
Make the relationship between CPUState, ArchCPU and cpu_env a bit
clearer in the kdoc comments.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
---
include/hw/core/cpu.h | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/hw/core/cpu.h b/include/hw/core/cpu.h
index bb398e8237..35d345371b 100644
--- a/include/hw/core/cpu.h
+++ b/include/hw/core/cpu.h
@@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ struct qemu_work_item;
#define CPU_UNSET_NUMA_NODE_ID -1
/**
- * CPUState:
+ * struct CPUState - common state of one CPU core or thread.
+ *
* @cpu_index: CPU index (informative).
* @cluster_index: Identifies which cluster this CPU is in.
* For boards which don't define clusters or for "loose" CPUs not assigned
@@ -439,10 +440,15 @@ struct qemu_work_item;
* @kvm_fetch_index: Keeps the index that we last fetched from the per-vCPU
* dirty ring structure.
*
- * State of one CPU core or thread.
+ * @neg_align: The CPUState is the common part of a concrete ArchCPU
+ * which is allocated when an individual CPU instance is created. As
+ * such care is taken is ensure there is no gap between between
+ * CPUState and CPUArchState within ArchCPU.
*
- * Align, in order to match possible alignment required by CPUArchState,
- * and eliminate a hole between CPUState and CPUArchState within ArchCPU.
+ * @neg: The architectural register state ("cpu_env") immediately follows
CPUState
+ * in ArchCPU and is passed to TCG code. The @neg structure holds some
+ * common TCG CPU variables which are accessed with a negative offset
+ * from cpu_env.
*/
struct CPUState {
/*< private >*/
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org>
