Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels

David Rientjes
2013-05-02T18:06:25Z

On Thu, 2 May 2013, tip-bot for Borislav Petkov wrote:

> Commit-ID: 7e0320e733eec67e40d2b53e438d9971f079862d
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/7e0320e733eec67e40d2b53e438d9971f079862d
> Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> AuthorDate: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:51:40 +0200
> Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> CommitDate: Thu, 2 May 2013 10:13:07 -0700
>
> x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels
>
> This is pretty useful for the case where people want to boot the
> resulting kernel in qemu/kvm or lkvm. Instead of going and
> searching for each required option through the Kconfig maze,
> this single option should simply enable everything required/good
> to have to boot the resulting kernel in the guest.
>
> Patch has been adapted from a version in the external lkvm tree.
>
> [ hpa: rebased to resolve a merge conflict ]
>
> Originally-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Originally-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130426095140.GA15361@pd.tnic
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Hi Peter,

You'll also need http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136744052328802 when
Borislav signs it off as it fixes one of the dependencies. Still waiting
on how X86_IO_APIC, X86_LOCAL_APIC, and NET_CORE will be resolved.