Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: Remove unused COMPILE_OFFSETS macro from asm-offsets.c

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:30:35 +0900
Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > If you are sure <asm/ftrace.h> is never included from asm-offsets.c,
> > remove #ifndef COMPILE_OFFSETS too.  
> 
> It is never included from asm-offsets.c but it is still used by
> kvm-asm-offsets.c:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.1-rc7/source/arch/x86/kvm/kvm-asm-offsets.c#L7

IIRC, the reason for adding that was because that logic was screwing up
asm-offsets.c. I'm not sure it screws up kvm-asm-offsets.c though.

This is one of those cases I wish I commented that code better :-/

-- Steve