Re: [PATCH V9 1/9] vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 2020/4/1 下午10:27, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:13:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 2020/4/1 下午9:02, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>> On 01.04.20 14:56, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>> On 01.04.20 14:50, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>> On 2020/4/1 下午7:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>>>> On 26.03.20 15:01, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>>>> Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is
>>>>>>> not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel
>>>>>>> communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without
>>>>>>> virtualization support from using vhost.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so
>>>>>>> CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION.
>>>>>> FWIW, this now results in vhost not being build with defconfig kernels (in todays
>>>>>> linux-next).
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Christian:
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you meet it even with this commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=a4be40cbcedba9b5b714f3c95182e8a45176e42d?
>>>> I simply used linux-next. The defconfig does NOT contain CONFIG_VHOST and therefore CONFIG_VHOST_NET and friends
>>>> can not be selected.
>>>>
>>>> $ git checkout next-20200401
>>>> $ make defconfig
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/confdata.o
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/expr.o
>>>>     LEX     scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c
>>>>     YACC    scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.[ch]
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.o
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/symbol.o
>>>>     HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/util.o
>>>>     HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
>>>> *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
>>>> #
>>>> # configuration written to .config
>>>> #
>>>>
>>>> $ grep VHOST .config
>>>> # CONFIG_VHOST is not set
>>>>
>>>>> If yes, what's your build config looks like?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>> This was x86. Not sure if that did work before.
>>> On s390 this is definitely a regression as the defconfig files
>>> for s390 do select VHOST_NET
>>>
>>> grep VHOST arch/s390/configs/*
>>> arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
>>> arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
>>> arch/s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_NET=m
>>> arch/s390/configs/defconfig:CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK=m
>>>
>>> and this worked with 5.6, but does not work with next. Just adding
>>> CONFIG_VHOST=m to the defconfig solves the issue, something like
>>
>> Right, I think we probably need
>>
>> 1) add CONFIG_VHOST=m to all defconfigs that enables
>> CONFIG_VHOST_NET/VSOCK/SCSI.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2) don't use menuconfig for CONFIG_VHOST, let NET/SCSI/VDPA just select it.
>>
>> Thanks
> OK I tried this:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> index 2523a1d4290a..a314b900d479 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> @@ -19,11 +19,10 @@ menuconfig VHOST
>   	  This option is selected by any driver which needs to access
>   	  the core of vhost.
>   
> -if VHOST
> -
>   config VHOST_NET
>   	tristate "Host kernel accelerator for virtio net"
>   	depends on NET && EVENTFD && (TUN || !TUN) && (TAP || !TAP)
> +	select VHOST
>   	---help---
>   	  This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
>   	  guest networking with virtio_net. Not to be confused with virtio_net
> @@ -35,6 +34,7 @@ config VHOST_NET
>   config VHOST_SCSI
>   	tristate "VHOST_SCSI TCM fabric driver"
>   	depends on TARGET_CORE && EVENTFD
> +	select VHOST
>   	default n
>   	---help---
>   	Say M here to enable the vhost_scsi TCM fabric module
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ config VHOST_VSOCK
>   	tristate "vhost virtio-vsock driver"
>   	depends on VSOCKETS && EVENTFD
>   	select VIRTIO_VSOCKETS_COMMON
> +	select VHOST
>   	default n
>   	---help---
>   	This kernel module can be loaded in the host kernel to provide AF_VSOCK
> @@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ config VHOST_VDPA
>   	tristate "Vhost driver for vDPA-based backend"
>   	depends on EVENTFD
>   	select VDPA
> +	select VHOST
>   	help
>   	  This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
>   	  guest virtio devices with the vDPA-based backends.
> @@ -78,5 +80,3 @@ config VHOST_CROSS_ENDIAN_LEGACY
>   	  adds some overhead, it is disabled by default.
>   
>   	  If unsure, say "N".
> -
> -endif
>
>
> But now CONFIG_VHOST is always "y", never "m".
> Which I think will make it a built-in.
> Didn't figure out why yet.


Is it because the dependency of EVENTFD for CONFIG_VHOST?

Remove that one for this patch, I can get CONFIG_VHOST=m.

But according to documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst, select is used for 
option without prompt.

Thanks


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