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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@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 17:15:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5730A98F.3080405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160509144712.GB7809@potion>



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?

>> Radim, please commit it
>> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2215443/raw) or pass the
>> tree back to me so that I can. :)
> 
> I've committed the patch.  The tree is yours now -- there probably is a
> lot I missed ...

No problem, I "only" have 1300 messages to go in my inbox but I'll take
a closer look at those that you didn't reply to.

Thanks,

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-09 15:15 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 [this message]
2016-05-09 15:25         ` Radim Krčmář
2016-05-09 15:46           ` Borislav Petkov

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