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   - [Features](./running_crosvm/features.md)
   - [Devices](./running_crosvm/devices.md)
 - [Architecture](./architecture.md)
-- [Contributing](./contributing.md)
+- [Contributing](./contributing/index.md)
+  - [Style Guide for Platform-Specific Code](./contributing/style_guide_platform_specific_code.md)
 
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+# Style guide for platform specific code
+
+## Code organization
+
+The crosvm code can heavily interleave platform specific code into platform agnostic code using
+`#[cfg(target_os = "")]`. This is difficult to maintain as
+
+- It reduces readability.
+- Difficult to write/maintain unit tests.
+- Difficult to maintain downstream, proprietary code
+
+To address the above mentioned issue, the style guide provides a way to standardize platform
+specific code layout.
+
+Consider a following example where we have platform independent code, `PrintInner`, which is used by
+platform specific code, `WinPrinter` and `UnixPrinter` to tweak the behavior according to the
+underlying platform. The users of this module, `sys`, get to use an aliased struct called `Printer`
+which exports similar interfaces on both the platforms.
+
+In this scheme `print.rs` contains platform agnostic logic, structures and traits. Different
+platforms, in `unix.rs` and `windows.rs`, implement traits defined in `print.rs`. Finally `sys.rs`
+exports interfaces implemented by platform specific code.
+
+In a more complex library, we may need another layer, `print.rs`, that uses traits and structures
+exported by platform specific code, `unix/print.rs` and `windows/print.rs`, and adds some more
+common logic to it. Following example illustrates the scheme discussed above. Here,
+`Printer.print()` is supposed to print a value of `u32` and print the target os name.
+
+The files that contain platform specific code **only** should live in a directory named `sys/` and
+those files should be conditionally imported in `sys.rs` file. In such a setup, the directory
+structure would look like,
+
+```bash
+$  tree
+.
+├── print.rs
+├── sys
+│   ├── unix
+│   │   └── print.rs
+│   ├── unix.rs
+│   ├── windows
+│   │   └── print.rs
+│   └── windows.rs
+└── sys.rs
+```
+
+File: `print.rs`
+
+```rust
+pub struct PrintInner {
+    pub value: u32,
+}
+
+impl PrintInner {
+    pub fn new(value: u32) -> Self {
+        Self { value }
+    }
+
+    pub fn print(&self) {
+        print!("My value:{} ", self.value);
+    }
+}
+
+// This is useful if you want to
+// * Enforce interface consistency or
+// * Have more than one compiled-in struct to provide the same api.
+//   Say a generic gpu driver and high performance proprietary driver
+//   to coexist in the same namespace.
+pub trait Print {
+    fn print(&self);
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys/windows/print.rs`
+
+```rust
+use crate::print::{Print, PrintInner};
+
+pub struct WinPrinter {
+    inner: PrintInner,
+}
+
+impl WinPrinter {
+    pub fn new(value: u32) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            inner: PrintInner::new(value),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Print for WinPrinter {
+    fn print(&self) {
+        self.inner.print();
+        println!("from win");
+    }
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys/unix/print.rs`
+
+```rust
+use crate::print::{Print, PrintInner};
+
+pub struct UnixPrinter {
+    inner: PrintInner,
+}
+
+impl UnixPrinter {
+    pub fn new(value: u32) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            inner: PrintInner::new(value),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Print for UnixPrinter {
+    fn print(&self) {
+        self.inner.print();
+        println!("from unix");
+    }
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys.rs`
+
+```rust
+cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+    if #[cfg(unix)] {
+        mod unix;
+        pub use platform_print::UnixPrinter as Printer;
+    } else if #[cfg(windows)] {
+        mod windows;
+        pub use platform_print::WinPrinter as Printer;
+    }
+}
+```
+
+## Imports
+
+When conditionally importing and using modules, use `cfg(unix)` and `cfg(windows)` for describing
+the platform. Order imports such that common comes first followed by unix and windows dependencies.
+
+```rust
+// All other imports
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use {
+  std::x::y,
+  base::a::b::{Foo, Bar},
+  etc::Etc,
+};
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+use {
+  std::d::b,
+  base::f::{Foo, Bar},
+  etc::{WinEtc as Etc},
+};
+```
+
+## Structure
+
+It is OK to have a few platform specific fields inlined with cfgs. When inlining
+
+- Ensure that all the fields of a particular platform are next to each other.
+- Organize common fields first and then platform specific fields ordered by the target os name i.e.
+  "unix" first and "windows" later.
+
+If the structure has a large set of fields that are platform specific, it is more readable to split
+it into different platform specific structures and have their implementations separate. If
+necessary, consider defining a crate in platform independent and have the platform specific files
+implement parts of those traits.
+
+## Enum
+
+When enums need to have platform specific variants
+
+- Create a new platform specific enum and move all platform specific variants under the new enum
+- Introduce a new variant, which takes a platform specific enum as member, to platform independent
+  enum.
+
+### Do
+
+File: `sys/unix/base.rs`
+
+```rust
+enum MyEnumSys {
+  Unix1,
+}
+
+fn handle_my_enum_impl(e: MyEnumSys) {
+  match e {
+    Unix1 => {..},
+  };
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys/windows/base.rs`
+
+```rust
+enum MyEnumSys {
+  Windows1,
+}
+
+fn handle_my_enum_impl(e: MyEnumSys) {
+  match e {
+    Windows1 => {..},
+  };
+}
+```
+
+File: `base.rs`
+
+```rust
+use sys::MyEnumSys;
+enum MyEnum {
+  Common1,
+  Common2,
+  SysVariants(MyEnumSys),
+}
+
+fn handle_my_enum(e: MyEnum) {
+  match e {
+    Common1 => {..},
+    Common2 => {..},
+    SysVariants(v) => handle_my_enum_impl(v),
+  };
+}
+```
+
+### Don't
+
+File: `base.rs`
+
+```rust
+enum MyEnum {
+  Common1,
+  Common2,
+  #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+  Windows1, // We shouldn't have platform-specific variants in a platform-independent enum.
+  #[cfg(target_os = "unix")]
+  Unix1, // We shouldn't have platform-specific variants in a platform-independent enum.
+}
+
+fn handle_my_enum(e: MyEnum) {
+  match e {
+    Common1 => {..},
+    Common2 => {..},
+    #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+    Windows1 => {..}, // We shouldn't have platform-specific match arms in a platform-independent code.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "unix")]
+    Unix1 => {..}, // We shouldn't have platform-specific match arms in a platform-independent code.
+  };
+}
+```
+
+## Code blocks and functions
+
+If a code block or a function has little platform independent code and the bulk of the code is
+platform specific then carve out platform specific code into a function. If the carved out function
+does most of what the original function was doing and there is no better name for the new function
+then the new function can be named by appending `_impl` to the functions name.
+
+### Do
+
+File: `base.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn my_func() {
+  print!("Hello ");
+  my_func_impl();
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys/unix/base.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn my_func_impl() {
+  println!("unix");
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys/windows/base.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn my_func_impl() {
+  println!("windows");
+}
+```
+
+### Don't
+
+File: `base.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn my_func() {
+  print!("Hello ");
+
+  #[cfg(target_os = "unix")] {
+    println!("unix"); // We shouldn't have platform-specific code in a platform-independent code block.
+  }
+
+  #[cfg(target_os = "windows")] {
+    println!("windows"); // We shouldn't have platform-specific code in a platform-independent code block.
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## match
+
+With an exception to matching enums, see [enum](#enum), matching for platform specific values can be
+done in the wildcard patter(`_`) arm of the match statement.
+
+### Do
+
+File: `parse.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn parse_args(arg: &str) -> Result<()>{
+  match arg {
+    "path" => {
+      <multiple lines of logic>;
+      Ok(())
+    },
+    _ => parse_args_impl(arg),
+  }
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys/unix/parse.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn parse_args_impl(arg: &str) -> Result<()>{
+  match arg {
+    "fd" => {
+      <multiple lines of logic>;
+      Ok(())
+    },
+    _ => Err(ParseError),
+  }
+}
+```
+
+File: `sys/windows/parse.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn parse_args_impl(arg: &str) -> Result<()>{
+  match arg {
+    "handle" => {
+      <multiple lines of logic>;
+      Ok(())
+    },
+    _ => Err(ParseError),
+  }
+}
+```
+
+### Don't
+
+File: `parse.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn parse_args(arg: &str) -> Result<()>{
+  match arg {
+    "path" => Ok(()),
+    #[cfg(target_os = "unix")]
+    "fd" => { // We shouldn't have platform-specific match arms in a platform-independent code.
+      <multiple lines of logic>;
+      Ok(())
+    },
+    #[cfg(target_os = "windows")]
+    "handle" => { // We shouldn't have platform-specific match arms in a platform-independent code.
+      <multiple lines of logic>;
+      Ok(())
+    },
+    _ => Err(ParseError),
+  }
+}
+```
+
+## Errors
+
+Inlining all platform specific error values is ok. This is an exception to the [enum](#enum) to keep
+error handling simple. Organize platform independent errors first and then platform specific errors
+ordered by the target os name i.e. "unix" first and "windows" later.
+
+## Platform specific symbols
+
+If a platform exports symbols that are specific to the platform only and are not exported by all
+other platforms then those symbols should be made public through a namespace that reflects the name
+of the platform.
+
+File: `sys.rs`
+
+```rust
+cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+    if #[cfg(unix)] {
+        pub mod unix;
+        pub use self::unix::print_hello;
+    } else if #[cfg(windows)] {
+        pub mod windows;
+        pub use self::windows::print_hello;
+    }
+}
+```
+
+File: `unix.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn print() {
+  println!("Hello unix");
+}
+
+fn print_u8(val: u8) {
+  println!("Unix u8:{}", val);
+
+}
+```
+
+File: `windows.rs`
+
+```rust
+fn print() {
+  println!("Hello windows");
+}
+
+fn print_u16(val: u16) {
+  println!("Windows u16:{}", val);
+
+}
+```
+
+The user of the library, say mylib, now has to do something like below which makes it explicit that
+the functions `print_u8` and `print_u16` are platform specific.
+
+```rust
+use mylib::print_hello;
+
+fn my_print() {
+  print_hello();
+
+  #[cfg(unix)]
+  mylib::unix::print_u8(1);
+
+  #[cfg(windows)]
+  mylib::windows::print_u16(1);
+}
+
+```