Re: [PATCH v8 01/12] x86emul: disable FPU/MMX/SIMD insn emulation when !HVM

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/05/2020 09:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
> In a pure PV environment (the PV shim in particular) we don't really
> need emulation of all these. To limit #ifdef-ary utilize some of the
> CASE_*() macros we have, by providing variants expanding to
> (effectively) nothing (really a label, which in turn requires passing
> -Wno-unused-label to the compiler when build such configurations).
>
> Due to the mixture of macro and #ifdef use, the placement of some of
> the #ifdef-s is a little arbitrary.
>
> The resulting object file's .text is less than half the size of the
> original, and looks to also be compiling a little more quickly.
>
> This is meant as a first step; more parts can likely be disabled down
> the road.
>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v7: Integrate into this series. Re-base.
> ---
> I'll be happy to take suggestions allowing to avoid -Wno-unused-label.

I already gave you one, along with a far less invasive change.

It is not interesting to be able to conditionally compile these things
separately.  A build of Xen will either need everything, or just the
integer group.

~Andrew