Re: [PATCH 09/11] swiotlb-xen: simplify cache maintainance

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 9/6/19 10:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:52:12AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> We need nop definitions of these two for x86.
>>
>> Everything builds now but that's probably because the calls are under
>> 'if (!dev_is_dma_coherent(dev))' which is always false so compiler
>> optimized is out. I don't think we should rely on that.
> That is how a lot of the kernel works.  Provide protypes only for code
> that is semantically compiled, but can't ever be called due to
> IS_ENABLED() checks.  It took me a while to get used to it, but it
> actually is pretty nice as the linker does the work for you to check
> that it really is never called.  Much better than say a BUILD_BUG_ON().


(with corrected Juergen's email)

I know about IS_ENABLED() but I didn't realize that this is allowed for
compile-time inlines and such as well.

Anyway, for non-ARM bits

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

If this goes via Xen tree then the first couple of patches need an ack
from ARM maintainers.

-boris