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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:40:36 -0800
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
Cc: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, 
	kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, paul.walmsley@...ive.com, palmer@...belt.com, 
	aou@...s.berkeley.edu, atishp@...shpatra.org, rdunlap@...radead.org, 
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, alex@...ti.fr, mpe@...erman.id.au, npiggin@...il.com, 
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, pbonzini@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -fixes v2] RISC-V: KVM: Require HAVE_KVM

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 6:07 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com> wrote:
> >
> > KVM requires EVENTFD, which is selected by HAVE_KVM. Other KVM
> > supporting architectures select HAVE_KVM and then their KVM
> > Kconfigs ensure its there with a depends on HAVE_KVM. Make RISCV
> > consistent with that approach which fixes configs which have KVM
> > but not EVENTFD, as was discovered with a randconfig test.
> >
> > Fixes: 99cdc6c18c2d ("RISC-V: Add initial skeletal KVM support")
> > Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44907c6b-c5bd-4e4a-a921-e4d3825539d8@infradead.org/
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
> 
> Queued this patch for Linux-6.8

That should be unnecessary.  Commit caadf876bb74 ("KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON"),
which is in Paolo's pull request for 6.8, addresses the EVENTFD issue.  And the
rest of Paolo's series[*], which presumably will get queued for 6.9, eliminates
HAVE_KVM entirely.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240108124740.114453-6-pbonzini@redhat.com

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