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From: Brooks Moses <bmoses@google.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kasprzak <iankaz@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Is BIT() in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h defined? Where?
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 12:15:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOxa4Kp3bhe8-PdX8wMArd5gHx9oEbjBZRv3xrt3wpLQdCzx=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160505082423.GB534@pd.tnic>

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 05:49:27PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
>> When I run "make ARCH=x86 headers_install", and then write a simple C
>> file that #includes "asm/kvm.h" from the resulting tree, I get a
>> compiler error: the BIT() macro used on line 219 of that file is
>> undefined:
>
> The below patch should help...

Thanks for the quick reply!  Yes, this should fix things for us -- and
answers my implicit question of whether it was better to fix this by
avoiding the macro or whether bitops.h was expected to be exported.

> @Paulo: btw, any chance we can fix that "signifcant" typo :-) in
> KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX or is it user-visible and cast in
> stone?

It's user-visible, but since it's been defined to something that
doesn't work in user-space, it seems unlikely to me that it has any
actual users....

- Brooks

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-05 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-05  0:49 Is BIT() in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h defined? Where? Brooks Moses
2016-05-05  8:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-05 19:15   ` Brooks Moses [this message]
2016-05-09 14:00   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-09 14:47     ` Radim Krčmář
2016-05-09 15:15       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-09 15:25         ` Radim Krčmář
2016-05-09 15:46           ` Borislav Petkov

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