linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm-ppc tree with the powerpc-merge tree

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Message-ID: <6AE080B68D46FC4BA2D2769E68D765B7080FA9F8@039-SN2MPN1-023.039d.mgd.msft.net>
Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:32:46 +0000
From:	Tabi Timur-B04825 <B04825@...escale.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yoder Stuart-B08248 <B08248@...escale.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm-ppc tree with the
 powerpc-merge tree

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Commit 549d62d889b4 ("KVM: PPC: use definitions in epapr header
> for hcalls") from the kvm-ppc tree added an include of asm/epapr_hcall.h
> to the user visible part of asm/kvm_para.h so asm/epapr_hcall.h became a
> user visible header file.

Any real user-space code that tries to call any of the functions in
epapr_hcall.h will cause an exception.

Claiming that kernel header files that KVM needs are suddenly
user-space header files doesn't make much sense to me, but I guess
it's not my decision.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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