Re: Is BIT() in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h defined? Where?

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon May 09 2016 - 11:15:35 EST




On 09/05/2016 16:47, Radim KrÄmÃÅ 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