linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/build: Build VSMP support only if CONFIG

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Date:   Mon, 5 Nov 2018 08:39:22 +0200
From:   Eial Czerwacki <eial@...lemp.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Shai Fultheim (Shai@...leMP.com)" <Shai@...leMP.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "broonie@...nel.org" <broonie@...nel.org>,
        "mhocko@...e.cz" <mhocko@...e.cz>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        "linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "mm-commits@...r.kernel.org" <mm-commits@...r.kernel.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Oren Twaig <oren@...lemp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/build: Build VSMP support only if CONFIG_PCI is
 selected

Greetings Thomas,

On 11/04/2018 11:05 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Eial,
> 
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
> 
>> Subject: x86/build: Build VSMP support only if CONFIG_PCI is selected
> 
> That's not what the patch does, right?
> 
you are correct, I'll resend it with a more appropriate subject.

>> vsmp dependency on pv_irq_ops removed some years ago, so now let's clean
>> it up from vsmp_64.c.
>>
>> In short, "cap & ctl & (1 << 4)" was always returning 0, as such we can
>> remove all the PARAVIRT/PARAVIRT_XXL code handling that.
>>
>> However, the rest of the code depends on CONFIG_PCI, so fix it accordingly.
>> in addition, rename set_vsmp_pv_ops to set_vsmp_ctl.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eial Czerwacki <eial@...lemp.com>
>> Acked-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@...lemp.com>
> 
> Unfortunately that patch does not apply. It's white space damaged, i.e. all
> tabs are converted to spaces.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> 

weird, it got applied without any issues on latest git, I'll verify it
applies well.

Eial.