Re: [PATCH] x86/jailhouse: fix building without X86_X2APIC

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jan 16 2018 - 02:21:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 01/16/2018 09:25 AM, Dou Liyang wrote:

>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
>>> index 98722773391d..0317d635d9ba 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
>>> @@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ static inline void lapic_assign_system_vectors(void)
>>> { }
>>> static inline void lapic_assign_legacy_vector(unsigned int i, bool r) {
>>> }
>>> #endif /* !CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC */
>>> +extern int x2apic_mode;
>>> +extern int x2apic_phys;
>>
>> We can't do that, adding a macro for the X2APIC=n case is enough
>>
> I am sorry when I looked into your code in tip tree. I found this
> measure is not true. please try the the following v2 patch.
>
> The reason I don't want to expose the x2apic_mode and x2apic_phys is
> that they may be misused in X2APIC=n case. So I create an interface to
> wrap it. do you think so? ;-)

I'm not sure I follow what the intention of that is. If you want to hide
those two variables, maybe make them 'static' and remove the extern
declarations?

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
> index 98722773391d..ac25ac2e49af 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
> @@ -251,6 +251,11 @@ static inline u64 native_x2apic_icr_read(void)
>
> extern int x2apic_mode;
> extern int x2apic_phys;
> +static inline void apic_set_x2apic_phys(void)
> +{
> + x2apic_phys = 1;
> +}
> +
> extern void __init check_x2apic(void);
> extern void x2apic_setup(void);
> static inline int x2apic_enabled(void)
> @@ -265,7 +270,10 @@ static inline void x2apic_setup(void) { }
> static inline int x2apic_enabled(void) { return 0; }
>
> #define x2apic_mode (0)
> -#define x2apic_supported() (0)
> +#define x2apic_phys (0)
> +#define x2apic_supported() (0)
> +
> +static inline void apic_set_x2apic_phys(void){}
> #endif /* !CONFIG_X86_X2APIC */
>
> struct irq_data;

I see nothing wrong it with this, but also don't see anything it does
that improves the interface.

Arnd