Re: [PATCH] x86/paravirt: Drop {read,write}_cr8() hooks

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 6:23 AM Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 15.07.19 15:00, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > There is a lot of infrastructure for functionality which is used
> > exclusively in __{save,restore}_processor_state() on the suspend/resume
> > path.
> >
> > cr8 is an alias of APIC_TASKPRI, and APIC_TASKPRI is saved/restored
> > independently by lapic_{suspend,resume}().
>
> Aren't those called only with CONFIG_PM set?
>


Unless I'm missing something, we only build any of the restore code
(including the write_cr8() call) if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is set, and that
selects CONFIG_PM, so we should be fine, I think.
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