On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 06:29:24PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 06:11:38PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 12:14:10PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > This partially reverts commit 09a2c73ddfc7f173237fc7209a65b34dd5bcb5ed.
> > > PCI: Remove unused PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition
> > >
> > > That commit dropped a symbol from an exported header claiming "no one
> > > uses it". This isn't how Linux normally approaches userspace API though,
> > > and in fact QEMU build fails if trying to use updated headers from linux
> > > 3.12 and up.
> > >
> > > Sure, userspace can be fixed to use the new symbol, but the cost
> > > of keeping the old one around is fairly low, too.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sorry, I lost the original message somehow, so I can't reply to it. I
> applied this by hand to my for-linus branch for v4.2, thanks!
Did you mean 4.2? time's running out on this one ...
Just making sure - it's still not upstream, right?
>
> commit c9ddbac9c89110f77cb0fa07e634aaf1194899aa
> Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Jul 14 18:27:46 2015 -0500
>
> PCI: Restore PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition
>
> 09a2c73ddfc7 ("PCI: Remove unused PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition")
> removed PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK from an exported header because it was
> unused in the kernel. But that breaks user programs that were using it
> (QEMU in particular).
>
> Restore the PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition.
>
> [bhelgaas: changelog]
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.13+
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h b/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
> index efe3443..413417f 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@
> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA 8 /* Pending Bit Array offset */
> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA_BIR 0x00000007 /* BAR index */
> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA_OFFSET 0xfffffff8 /* Offset into specified BAR */
> +#define PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK PCI_MSIX_PBA_BIR /* deprecated */
> #define PCI_CAP_MSIX_SIZEOF 12 /* size of MSIX registers */
>
> /* MSI-X Table entry format */
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