Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen: add tainted state and show warning is gcov is enabled

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:21:28PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Wei,
> 
> On 02/09/16 13:01, Wei Liu wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:56:49AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>>On 02.09.16 at 13:47, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>Since this is a config option - why bother issuing a warning and
> >>tainting the hypervisor?
> >>
> >
> >Because there isn't a clear indicator if gcov is enabled.
> 
> I think this is an issue to all .config option. If I am not mistaken,
> currently you are not able to know whether option FOO has been enabled for
> your kernel.
> 
> Maybe we should integrate the .config in the binary?
> 

I think that would be a good idea.  It is orthogonal to what I'm trying
to do here though.

Wei.

> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall

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