[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] introduce NEED_GLOBAL_ENV

[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Let's start the cleanups from the feature required by Blue Swirl.
> I also include here a baby step towards removing eminently TCG-related
> stuff from cpu.h.
>
> After this series, only a bunch of files will include exec-all.h,
> instead of getting it indirectly from cpu.h.
>
> Note that (as sworn in the previous submission) exec.h is only included
> by files that need the global register variable (i.e. cpu-exec.c and
> target-*/op_helper.c), and this is the same subset that gets
> NEED_GLOBAL_ENV in this patchset.
>
> i386 and sparc have functions declared in cpu.h that are in op_helper.c.
> I checked that these do not need the global variable, but it would be
> nice to cleanup those too.

Maybe some of those could be moved to helper.c?

> Paolo Bonzini (4):
>  remove unused stuff from */exec.h
>  move cpu_pc_from_tb to target-*/exec.h
>  remove exec-all.h inclusion from cpu.h
>  require #define NEED_GLOBAL_ENV for files that need the global
>    register variable

Good stuff. I had some comments to 1/4.