Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | David Hildenbrand <> | Subject | [PATCH v1] drivers/virtio: Clarify CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM for unsupported architectures | Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:47:37 +0200 |
| |
Let's make it clearer that simply unlocking CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM on an architecture is most probably not sufficient to have it working as expected.
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> --- drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig index b5adf6abd241..f86b6a988b63 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig @@ -115,9 +115,11 @@ config VIRTIO_MEM This driver provides access to virtio-mem paravirtualized memory devices, allowing to hotplug and hotunplug memory. - This driver was only tested under x86-64 and arm64, but should - theoretically work on all architectures that support memory hotplug - and hotremove. + This driver currently only supports x86-64 and arm64. Although it + should compile on other architectures that implement memory + hot(un)plug, architecture-specific and/or common + code changes may be required for virtio-mem, kdump and kexec to work as + expected. If unsure, say M. -- 2.35.3
| |