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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/pv-shim: Avoid a command line parameter warning for CONFIG_PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE builds


  • To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:16:38 +0100
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  • Cc: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:16:51 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
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On 30/01/2019 15:09, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 30/01/2019 11:06, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 30.01.19 at 11:01, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 30/01/2019 09:57, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 29.01.19 at 20:07, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
>>>>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/pv/shim.c
>>>>> @@ -40,7 +40,11 @@
>>>>>  #undef virt_to_mfn
>>>>>  #define virt_to_mfn(va) _mfn(__virt_to_mfn(va))
>>>>>  
>>>>> -#ifndef CONFIG_PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE
>>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE
>>>>> +/* Tolerate "pv-shim" being passed to a CONFIG_PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE 
>>>>> hypervisor. */
>>>>> +static bool _discard;
>>>>> +boolean_param("pv-shim", _discard);
>>>>> +#else
>>>>>  bool pv_shim;
>>>>>  boolean_param("pv-shim", pv_shim);
>>>>>  #endif
>>>> It would end up being less extra code if you did
>>>>
>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE
>>>> /* Tolerate "pv-shim" being passed to a CONFIG_PV_SHIM_EXCLUSIVE 
>>>> hypervisor. */
>>>> static bool __initdata pv_shim;
>>>> #else
>>>> bool pv_shim;
>>>> #endif
>>>> boolean_param("pv-shim", pv_shim);
>>>
>>> Sadly not.  In the EXCLUSIVE case, pv_shim is defined to be 1, and then
>>> you've got an object named with just a number.  (I tried this approach
>>> first.)
>>
>> Oh, that's unfortunate in this particular case. In which case I
>> don't have any better suggestion either. One that you and others
>> perhaps wouldn't like would be
>>
>> custom_param("pv-shim", NULL);
>>
>> with parse_params() suitably adjusted to avoid the call in that
>> case.
> 
> I'd rather add something like ignore_param("pv-shim") instead (with the
> new type OPT_IGNORE).

BTW, in case this is the selected solution we might want to add

ignore_param("placeholder");

as well. Some old grub scripts seem to add "placeholder" as the first
boot parameter to mitigate a grub error (eating first parameter).


Juergen

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