[PATCH] powerpc: move hmi.c to arch/powerpc/kvm/

Radim Krčmář rkrcmar at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 04:41:27 AEST 2016


2016-08-03 13:36+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> hmi.c functions are unused unless sibling_subcore_state is nonzero, and
> that in turn happens only if KVM is in use.  So move the code to
> arch/powerpc/kvm/, putting it under CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HANDLER
> rather than CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64.  The sibling_subcore_state is also
> included in struct paca_struct only if KVM is supported by the kernel.
> 
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: kvm-ppc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: kvm at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> ---
> 	It would be nice to have this in 4.8, to minimize any 4.9 conflicts.
> 	Build-tested only, with and without KVM enabled.

If you agree with the change, would you prefer to have this patch merged
through the PowerPC tree?

(There are no expected conflicts with -rc2 KVM tree.)

Thanks.


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