Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/7] xen/pvh: Split CONFIG_XEN_PVH into CONFIG_PVH and CONFIG_XEN_PVH

From: Maran Wilson
Date: Thu Mar 01 2018 - 12:25:22 EST


On 3/1/2018 7:17 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 01/03/2018 16:02, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
On 02/28/2018 01:27 PM, Maran Wilson wrote:
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index eb7f43f23521..fa7cd0305125 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -791,6 +791,14 @@ config KVM_GUEST
underlying device model, the host provides the guest with
timing infrastructure such as time of day, and system time
+config PVH
+ bool "Support for running PVH guests"
+ depends on KVM_GUEST || XEN

Not sure about XEN part. PVH is selected by XEN_PVH for Xen.

What about introducing KVM_GUEST_PVH that will select PVH and then drop
dependency here?
That is, "config KVM_GUEST_PVH" "depends on KVM_GUEST" "select PVH".
Sounds good to me.

OK, will do.

Thanks,
-Maran

Paolo

-boris

+ def_bool n
+ ---help---
+ This option enables the PVH entry point for guest virtual machines
+ as specified in the x86/HVM direct boot ABI.
+

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
index f605825a04ab..021c8591c3c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
@@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ config XEN_DEBUG_FS
Enabling this option may incur a significant performance overhead.
config XEN_PVH
- bool "Support for running as a PVH guest"
+ bool "Support for running as a Xen PVH guest"
depends on XEN && XEN_PVHVM && ACPI
# Pre-built page tables are not ready to handle 5-level paging.
depends on !X86_5LEVEL
+ select PVH
def_bool n