From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05867C433FE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S245041AbhK3PGc (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:06:32 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:60838 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231248AbhK3O6x (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:58:53 -0500 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE14BC0698E0; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 923D8B81A46; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A738C53FD0; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:52:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1638283926; bh=yiqQhwE2LM4N5B6zZAnXQGCAEgaSu7bjY+SniMdUyPo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=sflwqBJhOp5B/u73v5nhKNYRjiCGb/KBDFJhG3TfaEVpzJXSd43wDlFGEcuSA2f9v 7FOSvMgSrXiSobf4nZkg45l5WxsB3YT1Ic0TGtvYvK7oscHL351Mk5gnG9WpEfxq32 wk3DKiccoPegRa7Ii6MV6eLjyBCeQnWM6cMndRwP5/7LjwOgeBLR0l1VjVPoZ2sxCD JvBcweWNBvS1yzarqA0Ald+1eKAS1wL954eMul1+t9fFgassPaoaIxc/UQ5aUbWOOl 59gqZNfDSps7/bkwlR528WCND98PeSfwG7Uz6fzkTFgirTVFdhTIYwKtJrNlhgJ0rD EkxNgsBy5iBkw== From: Sasha Levin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Juergen Gross , =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= , Jan Beulich , Boris Ostrovsky , Sasha Levin , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 04/25] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:51:34 -0500 Message-Id: <20211130145156.946083-4-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.33.0 In-Reply-To: <20211130145156.946083-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20211130145156.946083-1-sashal@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: Ignore Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Juergen Gross [ Upstream commit 897919ad8b42eb8222553838ab82414a924694aa ] This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspace. Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive dependency. This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to building as module. [boris: clarified help message per Jan's suggestion] Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116143323.18866-1-jgross@suse.com Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/xen/Kconfig | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig index a50dadd010933..39edeaae1d7ad 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig @@ -231,9 +231,15 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND if guests need generic access to SCSI devices. config XEN_PRIVCMD - tristate + tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver" depends on XEN default m + help + The hypercall passthrough driver allows privileged user programs to + perform Xen hypercalls. This driver is normally required for systems + running as Dom0 to perform privileged operations, but in some + disaggregated Xen setups this driver might be needed for other + domains, too. config XEN_STUB bool "Xen stub drivers" -- 2.33.0