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Re: [PATCH v1 03/14] xen/pci: solve compilation error on ARM with ACPI && HAS_PCI



On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 20.08.2021 13:41, Rahul Singh wrote:
> > Hi Jan
> > 
> >> On 20 Aug 2021, at 8:06 am, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 19.08.2021 14:02, Rahul Singh wrote:
> >>> Compilation error is observed when ACPI and HAS_PCI is enabled for ARM
> >>> architecture. Move the code under CONFIG_X86 flag to gate the code for
> >>> ARM.
> >>
> >> Please give at least one example of what it is that fails to compile.
> >> What an appropriate action is depends on the nature of the error(s),
> >> and from looking at the enclosed code I cannot easily see what it
> >> might be that breaks for Arm.
> > 
> > I am observing below error when enabled ACPI && HAS_PCI for ARM.
> > 
> > prelink.o: In function `pcie_aer_get_firmware_first’:
> > /xen/drivers/passthrough/pci.c:1251: undefined reference to 
> > `apei_hest_parse'
> > aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: 
> > /home/rahsin01/work/xen/pci-passthrough-upstream/xen/xen/.xen-syms.0: 
> > hidden symbol `apei_hest_parse' isn't defined
> > 
> > I found that apei/ is only enabled for x86 and 
> > pcie_aer_get_firmware_first() is only called from x86 code.
> > obj-$(CONFIG_X86) += apei/
> > 
> > I am not sure whether we need this code for ARM architecture 
> > that is why I gate the code for ARM via CONFIG_X86
> 
> So you Arm folks will probably want to settle on that aspect first. What
> is wanted to keep things building depends on that.

Reading the APEI description, it looks like there might be some use for
it on ARM but it would work a bit differently from x86 as there are no
NMIs on ARM. So enabling APEI on ARM is not just a matter of enabling
the build of apei/, it is not going to be straightforward.

For the scope of this series (which is actually about PCI), I would
leave it alone, and keep apei/ x86 only, which means #ifdefing
pcie_aer_get_firmware_first.

I would just add an in-code comment saying "APEI not supported on ARM
yet". Another option would be to introduce a symbol like HAS_ACPI_APEI
but it is a bit overkill for this.

 


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