From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>,
"Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>,
"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
"Sasha Levin" <sashal@kernel.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 1/9] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:53:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211130145402.947049-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
[ 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 <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116143323.18866-1-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/xen/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
index 3a14948269b1e..59f862350a6ec 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
@@ -199,9 +199,15 @@ 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
next reply other threads:[~2021-11-30 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-30 14:53 Sasha Levin [this message]
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 2/9] NFSv4.1: handle NFS4ERR_NOSPC by CREATE_SESSION Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 3/9] HID: multitouch: Fix Iiyama ProLite T1931SAW (0eef:0001 again!) Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 4/9] parisc: Provide an extru_safe() macro to extract unsigned bits Sasha Levin
2021-12-04 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
2021-12-04 14:57 ` Helge Deller
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 5/9] mmc: spi: Add device-tree SPI IDs Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:53 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 6/9] smb2: clarify rc initialization in smb2_reconnect Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:54 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 7/9] PM: hibernate: Fix snapshot partial write lengths Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:54 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 8/9] net: ptp: add a definition for the UDP port for IEEE 1588 general messages Sasha Levin
2021-12-04 12:18 ` Pavel Machek
2021-11-30 14:54 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 9/9] fs: ntfs: Limit NTFS_RW to page sizes smaller than 64k Sasha Levin
2021-12-04 12:23 ` Pavel Machek
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