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Message-ID: <4FF2B5CF.2000707@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:05:19 +0800
From:	Yanfei Zhang <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, mtosatti@...hat.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, luto@....edu,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>, dzickus@...hat.com,
	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, ludwig.nussel@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] Sysfs: Export VMCSINFO via sysfs

于 2012年06月29日 10:58, Greg KH 写道:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:37:38AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 05:54:30PM +0800, Yanfei Zhang wrote:
>>> 于 2012年06月28日 03:22, Greg KH 写道:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:54:54PM +0800, Yanfei Zhang wrote:
>>>>> This patch export offsets of fields via /sys/devices/cpu/vmcs/.
>>>>> Individual offsets are contained in subfiles named by the filed's
>>>>> encoding, e.g.: /sys/devices/cpu/vmcs/0800
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: zhangyanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  drivers/base/core.c |   13 +++++++++++++
>>>>>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
>>>>> index 346be8b..dd05ee7 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
>>>>> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>>>>>  #include <linux/async.h>
>>>>>  #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
>>>>>  #include <linux/netdevice.h>
>>>>> +#include <asm/vmcsinfo.h>
>>>>
>>>> Did you just break the build on all other arches?  Not nice.
>>>>
>>>>> @@ -1038,6 +1039,11 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
>>>>>  	error = dpm_sysfs_add(dev);
>>>>>  	if (error)
>>>>>  		goto DPMError;
>>>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL) || defined(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL_MODULE)
>>>>> +	error = vmcs_sysfs_add(dev);
>>>>> +	if (error)
>>>>> +		goto VMCSError;
>>>>> +#endif
>>>>
>>>> Oh my no, that's no way to ever do this, you know better than that,
>>>> please fix.
>>>>
>>>> greg k-h
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry for my thoughtless, Here is the new patch.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/base/core.c |   13 +++++++++++++
>>>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
>>> index 346be8b..7b5266a 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
>>> @@ -30,6 +30,13 @@
>>>  #include "base.h"
>>>  #include "power/power.h"
>>>  
>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL) || defined(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL_MODULE)
>>> +#include <asm/vmcsinfo.h>
>>> +#else
>>> +static inline int vmcs_sysfs_add(struct device *dev) { return 0; }
>>> +static inline void vmcs_sysfs_remove(struct device *dev) { }
>>> +#endif
>>
>> {sigh}  No, again, you know better, don't do this.
> 
> Ok, as others have rightly pointed out, this wasn't the most helpful
> review comment, sorry about that.
> 
> In Linux, we don't put ifdefs in .c files, we put them in .h files.  See
> many examples of this all over the place.  That's my main complaints the
> past two times of this patch.
> 
> But, for this, I would question why you even want / need to do this in
> the drivers/base/core/ file in the first place.  Shouldn't it be in some
> arch or cpu specific file instead that already handles the cpu files?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

Many thanks. I have moved the code to my vmcsinfo_intel module.
Thanks again for your helpful comment.

Thanks
Zhang Yanfei
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