Re: xen/x86: properly retrieve NMI reason

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Tue Jan 06 2015 - 03:53:26 EST


>>> David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> 01/05/15 11:35 AM >>>
>On 19/12/14 16:16, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Using the native code here can't work properly, as the hypervisor would
>> normally have cleared the two reason bits by the time Dom0 gets to see
>> the NMI (if passed to it at all). There's a shared info field for this,
>> and there's an existing hook to use - just fit the two together. Note
>> that the hook can (and should) be used irrespective of whether being in
>> Dom0, as accessing port 0x61 in a DomU would be even worse, while the
>> shared info field would just hold zero all the time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>
>This doesn't build.
>
>In file included from
>/local/davidvr/work/k.org/tip/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c:43:0:
>/local/davidvr/work/k.org/tip/include/xen/interface/nmi.h:44:1: warning:
>data definition has no type or storage class [enabled by default]
>/local/davidvr/work/k.org/tip/include/xen/interface/nmi.h:44:1: error:
>type defaults to âintâ in declaration of âDEFINE_XEN_GUEST_HANDLEâ
>[-Werror=implicit-int]
>cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

Hmm, I can see why this happens (Linux renaming the macro from what
the canonical headers use), but I'll have to check why my build test didn't
catch this...

Jan

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