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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>,
	"Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>,
	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	"Sasha Levin" <sashal@kernel.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 11/43] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:49:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211130145022.945517-11-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211130145022.945517-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

[ Upstream commit 897919ad8b42eb8222553838ab82414a924694aa ]

This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspace.
Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive
dependency.

This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select
CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to
building as module.

[boris: clarified help message per Jan's suggestion]

Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116143323.18866-1-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/xen/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
index ea0efd290c372..98a3b702373aa 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
@@ -234,9 +234,15 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND
 	  if guests need generic access to SCSI devices.
 
 config XEN_PRIVCMD
-	tristate
+	tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver"
 	depends on XEN
 	default m
+	help
+	  The hypercall passthrough driver allows privileged user programs to
+	  perform Xen hypercalls. This driver is normally required for systems
+	  running as Dom0 to perform privileged operations, but in some
+	  disaggregated Xen setups this driver might be needed for other
+	  domains, too.
 
 config XEN_STUB
 	bool "Xen stub drivers"
-- 
2.33.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-30 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-30 14:49 [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 01/43] ASoC: mediatek: mt8173-rt5650: Rename Speaker control to Ext Spk Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 02/43] ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: Add support for SKU 0AF3 product Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 03/43] ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: Add support for SKU 0B00 and 0B01 products Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 04/43] ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: Add support for SKU 0B11 product Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 05/43] ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: Add support for SKU 0B13 product Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 06/43] ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: Add support for SKU 0B29 product Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 07/43] ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: Add support for SKU 0B12 product Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 08/43] ASoC: mediatek: mt8173: Fix debugfs registration for components Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 09/43] ASoC: qdsp6: q6adm: improve error reporting Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 10/43] ASoC: qdsp6: q6routing: validate port id before setting up route Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 12/43] NFSv4.1: handle NFS4ERR_NOSPC by CREATE_SESSION Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 13/43] scsi: scsi_debug: Fix type in min_t to avoid stack OOB Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 14/43] atlantic: fix double-free in aq_ring_tx_clean Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 15/43] stmmac_pci: Fix underflow size in stmmac_rx Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 16/43] HID: multitouch: Fix Iiyama ProLite T1931SAW (0eef:0001 again!) Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 17/43] parisc: Provide an extru_safe() macro to extract unsigned bits Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 18/43] parisc: Fix extraction of hash lock bits in syscall.S Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 19/43] parisc: Convert PTE lookup to use extru_safe() macro Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 20/43] selftests/tc-testings: Be compatible with newer tc output Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 21/43] scsi: scsi_debug: Sanity check block descriptor length in resp_mode_select() Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 22/43] locking/rwsem: Optimize down_read_trylock() under highly contended case Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 23/43] i2c: i801: Fix interrupt storm from SMB_ALERT signal Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 24/43] mmc: spi: Add device-tree SPI IDs Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 25/43] net: chelsio: cxgb4vf: Fix an error code in cxgb4vf_pci_probe() Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 26/43] smb2: clarify rc initialization in smb2_reconnect Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 27/43] nvmet-tcp: fix a race condition between release_queue and io_work Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 28/43] nvmet-tcp: add an helper to free the cmd buffers Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 29/43] nvmet-tcp: fix memory leak when performing a controller reset Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 30/43] nvme-tcp: validate R2T PDU in nvme_tcp_handle_r2t() Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 31/43] nvme-tcp: fix memory leak when freeing a queue Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 32/43] nvme-pci: add NO APST quirk for Kioxia device Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 33/43] nvme: fix write zeroes pi Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 34/43] xen: add "not_essential" flag to struct xenbus_driver Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 35/43] xen: flag xen_drm_front to be not essential for system boot Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 36/43] xen: flag hvc_xen " Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 37/43] xen: flag pvcalls-front " Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 38/43] xen: flag xen_snd_front " Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 39/43] PM: hibernate: Fix snapshot partial write lengths Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 40/43] vhost-vdpa: clean irqs before reseting vdpa device Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 41/43] net: qed: fix the array may be out of bound Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 42/43] net: ptp: add a definition for the UDP port for IEEE 1588 general messages Sasha Levin
2021-11-30 14:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 43/43] fs: ntfs: Limit NTFS_RW to page sizes smaller than 64k Sasha Levin

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