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

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:07:21 +0100
From:	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
	david.vrabel@...rix.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

Hi,

anything missing to take these patches?

Juergen

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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