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Careful analysis of the vcpu flags show that this is a mix of configuration, communication between the host and the hypervisor, as well as anciliary state that has no consistency. It'd be a lot better if we could split these flags into consistent categories. However, even if we split these flags apart, we want to make sure that each flag can only be applied to its own set, and not across sets. To achieve this, use a preprocessor hack so that each flag is always associated with: - the set that contains it, - a mask that describe all the bits that contain it (for a simple flag, this is the same thing as the flag itself, but we will eventually have values that cover multiple bits at once). Each flag is thus a triplet that is not directly usable as a value, but used by three helpers that allow the flag to be set, cleared, and fetched. By mandating the use of such helper, we can easily enforce that a flag can only be used with the set it belongs to. Finally, one last helper "unpacks" the raw value from the triplet that represents a flag, which is useful for multi-bit values that need to be enumerated (in a switch statement, for example). Further patches will start making use of this infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.