Re: [PATCH 4/7] x86: detect PIC aliasing on ports other than 0x[2A][01]

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 04:19:22PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 30.10.2023 16:14, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 01:24:52PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> On 26.10.2023 17:19, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>> Maybe the issue is that PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE shouldn't have been a
> >>> Kconfig option in the first place, and instead a specific Kconfig
> >>> config file?
> >>>
> >>> Maybe it's not possible to achieve the same using just a Kconfig
> >>> config file.
> >>
> >> I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by "Kconfig config file". It
> >> can't really be just another .../Kconfig file somewhere in the tree, as
> >> it doesn't really matter where an option like this would be defined.
> > 
> > No, I was thinking of splitting what PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE actually
> > implies, for example by adding CONFIG_DOMCTL_HYPERCALLL or
> > CONFIG_PLATFORM_HYPERCALL and re-work the pvshim_defconfig config file
> > based on those, so that we don't end up with negative relations.
> > 
> > Note sure all usages of PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE can be split in such a way,
> > maybe we would need some compromise.
> 
> Wouldn't such a CONFIG_DOMCTL_HYPERCALL then still want to depend on
> !PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE, which is the kind of dependency we want to avoid?
> Aiui the two (splitting and inverting) are largely orthogonal aspects.

No, CONFIG_DOMCTL_HYPERCALL could be promptless option enabled by
default and disabled by the pvshim_defconfig.

Thanks, Roger.