Re: [GIT PULL] UAPI: Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm

From: David Howells
Date: Sun Dec 09 2012 - 13:03:01 EST


Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild | 7 ++
> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_regs.h | 33 ---------
> arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h | 132 +---------------------------------
> arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h | 89 +----------------------
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 3 +
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/perf_regs.h | 33 +++++++++
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h | 132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 8 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 249 deletions(-)
>
> What are these changes - it seems perf and KVM related.

Only in passing. The header files you indicated are marked as being exported
to userspace in Kbuild - therefore they get disintegrated around __KERNEL__
conditionals just like all the other UAPI-relevant headers.

> Is the latest version above 100% bug-free, with no known
> problems whatsoever?

It builds perf for me. No idea if perf works, I've never used it. I waved a
branch including the patch on top of all my perf patches towards Arnaldo and
others, but I don't know if they've tried it.

I've also checked that x86_64 allyesconfig and i386 allmodconfig build and
that an x86_64 kernel built with my test machine's usual config builds and
boots.

So, no known problems.

David
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