Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: Remove unused COMPILE_OFFSETS macro from asm-offsets.c

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Nov 28 2022 - 13:18:58 EST


On 11/28/22 18:45, Steven Rostedt wrote:

If you are sure <asm/ftrace.h> is never included from asm-offsets.c,
remove #ifndef COMPILE_OFFSETS too.
It is never included from asm-offsets.c but it is still used by
kvm-asm-offsets.c:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.1-rc7/source/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-asm-offsets.c#L7
IIRC, the reason for adding that was because that logic was screwing up
asm-offsets.c. I'm not sure it screws up kvm-asm-offsets.c though.

This is one of those cases I wish I commented that code better :-/

I don't think KVM includes linux/ftrace.h or asm/ftrace.h at all.

Paolo