Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/xen: allow privcmd hypercalls to be preempted

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 02:23:14PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > index 0000000..b5a3e98
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/preempt.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> > +/*
> > + * Preemptible hypercalls
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2014 Citrix Systems R&D ltd.
> > + *
> > + * This source code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> > + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
> > + * License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#include <xen/xen-ops.h>
> > +
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> > +DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, xen_in_preemptible_hcall);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_in_preemptible_hcall);
> > +#endif
> 
> Please also add this in the patch:
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/preempt.c b/drivers/xen/preempt.c
> index b5a3e98..5d773dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/preempt.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/preempt.c
> @@ -13,5 +13,5 @@
>  
>  #ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, xen_in_preemptible_hcall);
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_in_preemptible_hcall);
> +EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_in_preemptible_hcall);
>  #endif

Ammended, although I think we want another approach now based
on the recommendations by Andy Lutomirski.

  Luis