linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] x86/ioapic: Support hot-removal of IOAPICs present during boot

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Message-ID: <20160623173445.GF17987@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:34:45 -0500
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, rjw@...ysocki.net, tony.luck@...el.com,
	bhelgaas@...gle.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rui.y.wang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] x86/ioapic: Support hot-removal of IOAPICs
 present during boot

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 01:11:41PM +0800,  wrote:
> From: Rui Wang <rui.y.wang@...el.com>
> 
> On Wed, June 22, 2016 11:15 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [...]
> > > @@ -1779,8 +1780,12 @@ void __init
> > > pci_assign_unassigned_resources(void)
> > >  {
> > >  	struct pci_bus *root_bus;
> > >
> > > -	list_for_each_entry(root_bus, &pci_root_buses, node)
> > > +	list_for_each_entry(root_bus, &pci_root_buses, node) {
> > >  		pci_assign_unassigned_root_bus_resources(root_bus);
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > > +		acpi_ioapic_add(ACPI_HANDLE(root_bus->bridge));
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > Doesn't this do the right thing even if you omit the #ifdefs, since you
> > define a stub function below?
> > 
> 
> No. Without the '#ifdef CONFIG_X86' it breaks MIPS arch. The stub function is
> within 'ifdef CONFIG_ACPI'. On archs without ACPI it doesn't compile due to
> 'undefined reference to acpi_ioapic_add'.

But this *could* be made to work by defining a stub for the
non-CONFIG_ACPI case.  That's what we generally do to avoid ifdefs in
the code.

Bjorn