Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va

[Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>]

On 01/26/2017 05:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Right now there is only a pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va() which is defined
>> on kvmclock since:
>>
>> commit dac16fba6fc5
>> ("x86/vdso: Get pvclock data from the vvar VMA instead of the fixmap")
>>
>> The only user of this interface was kvm. This commit moves
>> pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va to pvclock which is a more generic place to have it
>> and adds the correspondent setter routine for it. This allows other
>> pvclock-based clocksources to use it, such as Xen.
> 
> With a minor nit:
> 
> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> 
>> +#else
>> +static inline void pvclock_set_pvti_cpu0_va(struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvti)
>> +{
>> +}
> 
> How about just not providing pvclock_set_pvti_cpu0_va() in this case?
> It'll save three lines of code, and, more importantly, it will force
> us to notice if we screw up the Kconfig stuff.
Sounds good, will remove this then. Thanks!

Joao