Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] x86, arm64, platform, xen, kconfig: add xen defconfig helper

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Dec 09 2014 - 18:27:28 EST


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/12/14 20:22, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hello Luis,
>>>
>>> On 08/12/2014 23:05, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/kernel/configs/xen.config b/kernel/configs/xen.config
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000..0d0eb6d
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/kernel/configs/xen.config
>>>> +CONFIG_XEN_MCE_LOG=y
>>>
>>>
>>> MCE is x86 specific.
>>
>> That's what I thought too but its available for arm64, so should we
>> fix that Kconfig to depend on x86?
>
> Are you sure? On the Linus's repo I have:
>
> config XEN_MCE_LOG
> bool "Xen platform mcelog"
> depends on XEN_DOM0 && X86_64 && X86_MCE
>
> Anyway, the MCE interface in the hypervisor is implemented in arch/x86
> not in common code.

OK I'll move to x86.

>>>> +CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU=y
>>>
>>>
>>> We don't have PVMMU support on ARM. Shouldn't you move this config in
>>> architecture specific code?
>>
>> If you are sure then yes.
>
> I'm 100% sure. MMU is handled by the hardware on ARM.
>
> Thinking a bit more about this option. CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_PVMMU can't be
> selected by the user. It's automatically added per platform (for
> instance see arch/x86/xen/Kconfig).
>
> So maybe it should not even appear in the one of the fragment configs?

And I'll remove this one.

Luis
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