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SubjectRe: [PATCH] pci_regs: reintroduce PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 06:29:24PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 06:11:38PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 12:14:10PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> > > This partially reverts commit 09a2c73ddfc7f173237fc7209a65b34dd5bcb5ed.
>> > > PCI: Remove unused PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition
>> > >
>> > > That commit dropped a symbol from an exported header claiming "no one
>> > > uses it". This isn't how Linux normally approaches userspace API though,
>> > > and in fact QEMU build fails if trying to use updated headers from linux
>> > > 3.12 and up.
>> > >
>> > > Sure, userspace can be fixed to use the new symbol, but the cost
>> > > of keeping the old one around is fairly low, too.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>>
>> Sorry, I lost the original message somehow, so I can't reply to it. I
>> applied this by hand to my for-linus branch for v4.2, thanks!
>
>
>
> Did you mean 4.2? time's running out on this one ...
> Just making sure - it's still not upstream, right?

It's on my for-linus branch and it's been in -next for a couple weeks.
We're at -rc4, and I will send a pull request to Linus before v4.2
releases. This is a really minor fix, so I'm holding it in case there
are other fixes that I can include in the same request.

>> commit c9ddbac9c89110f77cb0fa07e634aaf1194899aa
>> Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>> Date: Tue Jul 14 18:27:46 2015 -0500
>>
>> PCI: Restore PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition
>>
>> 09a2c73ddfc7 ("PCI: Remove unused PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition")
>> removed PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK from an exported header because it was
>> unused in the kernel. But that breaks user programs that were using it
>> (QEMU in particular).
>>
>> Restore the PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK definition.
>>
>> [bhelgaas: changelog]
>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
>> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h b/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
>> index efe3443..413417f 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h
>> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@
>> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA 8 /* Pending Bit Array offset */
>> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA_BIR 0x00000007 /* BAR index */
>> #define PCI_MSIX_PBA_OFFSET 0xfffffff8 /* Offset into specified BAR */
>> +#define PCI_MSIX_FLAGS_BIRMASK PCI_MSIX_PBA_BIR /* deprecated */
>> #define PCI_CAP_MSIX_SIZEOF 12 /* size of MSIX registers */
>>
>> /* MSI-X Table entry format */


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