Re: [PATCH V9 1/9] vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig

From: Jason Wang
Date: Wed Apr 01 2020 - 10:14:02 EST



On 2020/4/1 äå9:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

On 01.04.20 14:56, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote:
On 2020/4/1 äå7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote:
Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is
not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel
communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without
virtualization support from using vhost.

To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so
CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION.
FWIW, this now results in vhost not being build with defconfig kernels (in todays
linux-next).

Hi Christian:

Did you meet it even with this commitÂhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=a4be40cbcedba9b5b714f3c95182e8a45176e42d?
I simply used linux-next. The defconfig does NOT contain CONFIG_VHOST and therefore CONFIG_VHOST_NET and friends
can not be selected.

$ git checkout next-20200401
$ make defconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/confdata.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/expr.o
LEX scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c
YACC scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch]
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/symbol.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/util.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
*** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
#
# configuration written to .config
#

$ grep VHOST .config
# CONFIG_VHOST is not set

If yes, what's your build config looks like?

Thanks
This was x86. Not sure if that did work before.
On s390 this is definitely a regression as the defconfig files
for s390 do select VHOST_NET

grep VHOST arch/s390/configs/*
arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
arch/s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
arch/s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m

and this worked with 5.6, but does not work with next. Just adding
CONFIG_VHOST=m to the defconfig solves the issue, something like


Right, I think we probably need

1) add CONFIG_VHOST=m to all defconfigs that enables CONFIG_VHOST_NET/VSOCK/SCSI.

or

2) don't use menuconfig for CONFIG_VHOST, let NET/SCSI/VDPA just select it.

Thanks



---
arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig | 5 +++--
arch/s390/configs/defconfig | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig b/arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig
index 46038bc58c9e..0b83274341ce 100644
--- a/arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ CONFIG_PROTECTED_VIRTUALIZATION_GUEST=y
CONFIG_CMM=m
CONFIG_APPLDATA_BASE=y
CONFIG_KVM=m
-CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
-CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
CONFIG_OPROFILE=m
CONFIG_KPROBES=y
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
@@ -561,6 +559,9 @@ CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT=y
+CONFIG_VHOST=m
+CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
+CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
CONFIG_S390_CCW_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_S390_AP_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
diff --git a/arch/s390/configs/defconfig b/arch/s390/configs/defconfig
index 7cd0648c1f4e..39e69c4e8cf7 100644
--- a/arch/s390/configs/defconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/configs/defconfig
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ CONFIG_PROTECTED_VIRTUALIZATION_GUEST=y
CONFIG_CMM=m
CONFIG_APPLDATA_BASE=y
CONFIG_KVM=m
-CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
-CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
CONFIG_OPROFILE=m
CONFIG_KPROBES=y
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
@@ -557,6 +555,9 @@ CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_BALLOON=m
CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT=y
+CONFIG_VHOST=m
+CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
+CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
CONFIG_S390_CCW_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_S390_AP_IOMMU=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y