Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Jan 26 2017 - 12:26:43 EST


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Right now there is only a pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va() which is defined
> on kvmclock since:
>
> commit dac16fba6fc5
> ("x86/vdso: Get pvclock data from the vvar VMA instead of the fixmap")
>
> The only user of this interface was kvm. This commit moves
> pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va to pvclock which is a more generic place to have it
> and adds the correspondent setter routine for it. This allows other
> pvclock-based clocksources to use it, such as Xen.

With a minor nit:

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +#else
> +static inline void pvclock_set_pvti_cpu0_va(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvti)
> +{
> +}

How about just not providing pvclock_set_pvti_cpu0_va() in this case?
It'll save three lines of code, and, more importantly, it will force
us to notice if we screw up the Kconfig stuff.