On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 14:53:10 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I do not see any consistency about headers_install of <linux/kvm_para.h>
> and <asm/kvm_para.h>.
>
> According to my analysis of Linux 5.0-rc5, there are 3 groups:
>
> [1] Both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> are exported
>
> alpha, arm, hexagon, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86
>
> [2] <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported, but <linux/kvm_para.h> is not
>
> arc, arm64, c6x, h8300, ia64, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc
>
> [3] Neither <linux/kvm_para.h> nor <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported
>
> csky, nds32, riscv
>
> This does not match to the actual KVM support. At least, [2] is
> half-baked.
>
> Nor do arch maintainers look like they care about this. For example,
> commit 0add53713b1c ("microblaze: Add missing kvm_para.h to Kbuild")
> exported <asm/kvm_para.h> to user-space in order to fix an in-kernel
> build error.
>
> We have two ways to make this consistent:
>
> [A] export both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> for all
> architectures, irrespective of the KVM support
>
> [B] Match the header export of <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h>
> to the KVM support
>
> My first attempt was [A] because the code looks better, but Paolo
> showed preference in [B].
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10794919/
>
> So, this commit is the implementation of [B].
>
> For most architectures, <asm/kvm_para.h> was moved to the kernel-space.
> I changed include/uapi/linux/Kbuild so that it checks generated
> asm/kvm_para.h as well as check-in ones.
>
> After this commit, there will be two groups:
>
> [1] Both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> are exported
>
> arm arm64 mips powerpc s390 x86
>
> [2] Neither <linux/kvm_para.h> nor <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported
>
> alpha arc c6x csky h8300 hexagon ia64 m68k microblaze nds32 nios2
> openrisc parisc riscv sh sparc unicore32 xtensa
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> The alternative solution [A] is available at:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10794919/
>
> Comparing the code diff, I personally prefer [A]...
I think both are much better than the status quo. This approach makes
the diff a bit uglier, but the end result looks cleaner to me.
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> arch/alpha/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 --
> arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 --
> arch/c6x/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/c6x/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/h8300/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/h8300/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/hexagon/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/hexagon/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 --
> arch/ia64/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/microblaze/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 5 -----
> arch/nios2/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/nios2/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/openrisc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/openrisc/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/parisc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 8 --------
> arch/sh/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/sh/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/sparc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 --
> arch/unicore32/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/unicore32/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/xtensa/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 +
> arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 2 ++
> 37 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/hexagon/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> delete mode 100644 arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
