RE: [patch] x86, kvm: fix build failure with CONFIG_SMP disabled

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Randy Dunlap wrote on 2013-04-18:
> On 04/17/13 17:35, Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
>> David Rientjes wrote on 2013-04-18:
>>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 04/17/13 16:12, David Rientjes wrote:
>>>>> The build fails when CONFIG_SMP is disabled:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 	arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c: In function 'vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt':
>>>>> 	arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:3950:3: error: 'apic' undeclared (first use in
>>>>> this function)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Fix it by including the necessary header.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry, i386 build still fails with the same error message plus this one:
>>>> 
>>>> ERROR: "apic" [arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.ko] undefined!
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ahh, that's because you don't have CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC as you already
>>> mentioned.  So it looks like this error can manifest in two different ways
>>> and we got different reports.
>>> 
>>> This failure came from "KVM: VMX: Add the deliver posted interrupt
>>> algorithm", so adding Yang to the cc to specify the dependency this has on
>>> apic and how it can be protected without CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC on i386.
>> How about the follow patch?
>> 
>> commit a49dd819f502c1029c5a857e87201ef25ec06ce6
>> Author: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Wed Apr 17 05:34:07 2013 -0400
>> 
>>     KVM: x86: Don't sending posted interrupt if not config CONFIG_SMP
>>     
>>     In UP, posted interrupt logic will not work. So we should not send
>>     posted interrupt and let vcpu to pick the pending interrupt before
>>     vmentry.
>>     
>>     Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Missing Reported-by: and the patch does not apply cleanly (looks like
> lots of spaces instead of tabs in it)... but it does build now after
> massaging the patch.
Thanks.
Just copy it to you for a quick testing. I will resend a formal patch.

> Thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index
>> 52b21da..d5c6b95 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++
>> b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -3946,10 +3946,12 @@ static void
>> vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector)
>> 
>>         r = pi_test_and_set_on(&vmx->pi_desc);
>>         kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu); +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP if
>>         (!r && (vcpu->mode == IN_GUEST_MODE))
>>                 apic->send_IPI_mask(get_cpu_mask(vcpu->cpu),
>>                                 POSTED_INTR_VECTOR);
>>         else
>> +#endif
>>                 kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
>>  }
>> Best regards,
>> Yang
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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Best regards,
Yang


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