Some confusing code of the kernel

[Marcus Hähnel]

On 2014-05-29 18:22, Yuxin Ren wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Marcus Hähnel
> <mhaehnel at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-05-28 03:59, Yuxin Ren wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you very much.
>>> But how can I know which file is compiled?

What do you mean with 'how can I know'?
Do you mean how you can set it?

The menuconfig option is [Kernel options] -> [No virtually mapped array 
for cap tables], which is only visible if you enable experimental 
features in the main menu.

Or do you mean how you can find out which one is compiled?

I already pointed you to src/Modules.generic which has an if clause 
that decides which one to use based on the config option in lines 33 and 
following. The Modules.generic file is included by the build system 
during the build process.

Does that answer your Question?

- Marcus


>> This is decided during build time based on your configuration. The 
>> vuild system decides which file to build based on the 
>> CONFIG_VIRT_OBJ_SPACE setting. See src/Modules.generic.
>> 
>> - Marcus
> 
>      Thanks a lot.
>     But can you tell me a little in detail which kernel compile
> configuration decides  this?
>     I am using x86 and ia32..
> 
>    Best
> 
>>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Adam Lackorzynski
>>> <adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue May 27, 2014 at 13:51:31 -0800, Yuxin Ren wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Now I am learning the kernel code of Fiasco.
>>>>> But as I do not know much about C++, I feel confused about some 
>>>>> code.
>>>> 
>>>> Some C++ knowledge is required I think...
>>>> 
>>>>> In the file obj_space-virt.cpp, we have such code
>>>>> EXTENSION class Generic_obj_space : 
>>>>> Obj_space_virt<Generic_obj_space<SPACE>
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> And similarly, in the file obj_space-phys.cpp, we have
>>>>> EXTENSION class Generic_obj_space : 
>>>>> Obj_space_phys<Generic_obj_space< SPACE
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. What's the meaning of these tow line code? Does it mean that 
>>>>> the class
>>>>> Generic_obj_space
>>>>> inherit from both class Obj_space_virt and class Obj_space_phys?
>>>> 
>>>> It inherits from just Obj_space_phys which however takes another 
>>>> class
>>>> as a parameter to implement some specific functionality at compile 
>>>> time.
>>>> 
>>>>> uch as lookup_local method. When such a method is called, how can 
>>>>> I know
>>>>> which class is invoked?
>>>>> 
>>>>> That depends on the type of the object the method is called on. In 
>>>>> this
>>>>> particul
>>>> obj_space-*.cpp, only one file of the two files is
>>>> compiled, so only one version of Generic_obj_space can ever exist.
>>>> 
>>>> Adam
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