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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: build infrastructure for generating hypercall depending symbols
On 12/15/2014 12:38 PM, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 11/12/14 18:04, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Today there are several places in the kernel which build tables
>> containing one entry for each possible Xen hypercall. Create an
>> infrastructure to be able to generate these tables at build time.
>
> Does arm and arm64 need something similar? If so are the tools here
> suitable for them?

I don't think arm* needs this. But in case it does, the tools would
support arm as well.


Juergen

>
>> --- a/arch/x86/syscalls/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/Makefile
>
> Why are these changes here and not in arch/x86/xen/Makefile?
>
>> @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ quiet_cmd_syshdr = SYSHDR $@
>> quiet_cmd_systbl = SYSTBL $@
>> cmd_systbl = $(CONFIG_SHELL) '$(systbl)' $< $@
>>
>> +quiet_cmd_hypercalls = HYPERCALLS $@
>> + cmd_hypercalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) '$<' $@ $(filter-out $<,$^)
>> +
>> syshdr_abi_unistd_32 := i386
>> $(uapi)/unistd_32.h: $(syscall32) $(syshdr)
>> $(call if_changed,syshdr)
>> @@ -47,10 +50,16 @@ $(out)/syscalls_32.h: $(syscall32) $(systbl)
>> $(out)/syscalls_64.h: $(syscall64) $(systbl)
>> $(call if_changed,systbl)
>>
>> +$(out)/xen-hypercalls.h: $(srctree)/scripts/xen-hypercalls.sh
>> + $(call if_changed,hypercalls)
>> +
>> +$(out)/xen-hypercalls.h: $(srctree)/include/xen/interface/xen*.h
>
> The generated header should end up in asm/xen/
>
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/xen-hypercalls.sh
>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>> +#!/bin/sh
>> +out="$1"
>> +shift
>> +in="$@"
>> +
>> +for i in $in; do
>> + eval $CPP $LINUXINCLUDE -dD -imacros "$i" -x c /dev/null
>> +done | \
>> +awk '$1 == "#define" && $2 ~ /__HYPERVISOR_[a-z][a-z_0-9]*/ { v[$3] = $2 }
>> + END {for (i in v) if (!(v[i] in v))
>> + print "HYPERCALL("substr(v[i], 14)")"}' | sort -u >$out
>
> Include a comment in the generated output saying what generated it. e.g.,
>
> /* auto-generated by scripts/xen-hypercall.sh */
>
> David
>
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