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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] vhost: disable for OABI
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 01:29:09AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:20:20PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > vhost is currently broken on the some ARM configs.
> >
> > The reason is that that uses apcs-gnu which is the ancient OABI that is been
> > deprecated for a long time.
> >
> > Given that virtio support on such ancient systems is not needed in the
> > first place, let's just add something along the lines of
> >
> > depends on !ARM || AEABI
> >
> > to the virtio Kconfig declaration, and add a comment that it has to do
> > with struct member alignment.
> >
> > Note: we can't make VHOST and VHOST_RING themselves have
> > a dependency since these are selected. Add a new symbol for that.
>
> This description is horrible. The only interesting thing for ARM OABI
> is that it has some strange padding rules, but that isn't something
> that can't be handled. Please spend some time looking into the issue
> and add te proper __padded annotations, we've done that elsewhere in
> the kernel and it isn't too bad - in fact it helps understanding issues
> with implicit alignment.

Yes I have a patch queued to fix it. I wanted a minimal patch for this
release though.

> And even if you have a good reason not to fix vhost (which I think you
> don't have) this changelog is just utter crap, as it fails to mention
> what the problem with ARM OABI even is.

I'll tweak that, thanks!

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