linux-kernel - Re: [Patch V2 0/4] xen: auto-generate symbols for xen hypercalls

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Message-ID: <54BD25E4.3020606@citrix.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:42:28 +0000
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<x86@...nel.org>, <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	<konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	<tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <hpa@...or.com>,
	<mmarek@...e.cz>, <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch V2 0/4] xen: auto-generate symbols for xen hypercalls

On 19/01/15 05:07, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> anything missing to take these patches?

Patch #1 needs an x86 maintainer ack.

David

> On 12/17/2014 10:50 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> The Xen hypercalls are defined in include/xen/interface/xen.h. There
>> are some places where for each hypercall a table element is created.
>> Instead of manually add each hypercall element to these tables use
>> an auto generated header built during the make process of the kernel.
>>
>> Changes in V2:
>> - add "autogenerated" comment to generated header file as suggested by
>>    David Vrabel (patch 1)
>> - some minor adjustments to patch 4 as suggested by David Vrabel
>>
>> Juergen Gross (4):
>>    xen: build infrastructure for generating hypercall depending symbols
>>    xen: synchronize include/xen/interface/xen.h with xen
>>    xen: use generated hypervisor symbols in arch/x86/xen/trace.c
>>    xen: use generated hypercall symbols in arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S
>>
>>   arch/x86/syscalls/Makefile  |  9 +++++++
>>   arch/x86/xen/trace.c        | 50 +++--------------------------------
>>   arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S     | 63
>> +++++++--------------------------------------
>>   include/xen/interface/xen.h |  6 ++++-
>>   scripts/xen-hypercalls.sh   | 12 +++++++++
>>   5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 scripts/xen-hypercalls.sh
>>
> 

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