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From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Brooks Moses <bmoses@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kasprzak <iankaz@google.com>
Subject: Re: Is BIT() in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h defined? Where?
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 17:25:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160509152502.GB12472@potion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5730A98F.3080405@redhat.com>

2016-05-09 17:15+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 09/05/2016 16:47, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> 2016-05-09 16:00+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
>>> On 05/05/2016 10:24, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 05:49:27PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
>>>>> When I run "make ARCH=x86 headers_install", and then write a simple C
>>>>> file that #includes "asm/kvm.h" from the resulting tree, I get a
>>>>> compiler error: the BIT() macro used on line 219 of that file is
>>>>> undefined:
>>>>
>>>> The below patch should help...
>>>>
>>>> @Paulo: btw, any chance we can fix that "signifcant" typo :-) in
>>>> KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX or is it user-visible and cast in
>>>> stone?
>>>
>>> Unfortuntely it is cast in stone.  The patch below is good though.
>> 
>> We can "fix" it by introducing a second name for the entry.  Do you
>> think it's worth?
> 
> I don't think so, but perhaps there are precedents for doing that?

I can't think of any, and it seems pointless to me ...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-09 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-05  0:49 Is BIT() in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h defined? Where? Brooks Moses
2016-05-05  8:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-05 19:15   ` Brooks Moses
2016-05-09 14:00   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-09 14:47     ` Radim Krčmář
2016-05-09 15:15       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-09 15:25         ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2016-05-09 15:46           ` Borislav Petkov

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