Re: [PATCH V9 1/9] vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig

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On 2020/4/1 下午10:18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:13:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
On 2020/4/1 下午9:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 01.04.20 14:56, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote:
On 2020/4/1 下午7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote:
Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is
not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel
communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without
virtualization support from using vhost.

To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so
CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION.
FWIW, this now results in vhost not being build with defconfig kernels (in todays
linux-next).

Hi Christian:

Did you meet it even with this commithttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=a4be40cbcedba9b5b714f3c95182e8a45176e42d?
I simply used linux-next. The defconfig does NOT contain CONFIG_VHOST and therefore CONFIG_VHOST_NET and friends
can not be selected.

$ git checkout next-20200401
$ make defconfig
    HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/confdata.o
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/expr.o
    LEX     scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c
    YACC    scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch]
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.o
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/symbol.o
    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/util.o
    HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
*** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
#
# configuration written to .config
#

$ grep VHOST .config
# CONFIG_VHOST is not set

If yes, what's your build config looks like?

Thanks
This was x86. Not sure if that did work before.
On s390 this is definitely a regression as the defconfig files
for s390 do select VHOST_NET

grep VHOST arch/s390/configs/*
arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
arch/s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
arch/s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m

and this worked with 5.6, but does not work with next. Just adding
CONFIG_VHOST=m to the defconfig solves the issue, something like
Right, I think we probably need

1) add CONFIG_VHOST=m to all defconfigs that enables
CONFIG_VHOST_NET/VSOCK/SCSI.

or

2) don't use menuconfig for CONFIG_VHOST, let NET/SCSI/VDPA just select it.

Thanks
I think I prefer 2, but does it auto-select VHOST_IOTLB then?


I think so. E.g VHOST_NET will select VHOST,  and VHOST will select VHOST_IOTLB.


Generally what was the reason to drop select VHOST from devices?



The reason is a sub menu is needed for VHOST devices, then I use menuconfig for CONFIG_VHOST.

Then select is not necessary anymore.

Thanks






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