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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] configure: detect presence of libxendevicemodel



On 02/03/17 12:06, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Juergen Gross [mailto:jgross@xxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 02 March 2017 11:01
>> To: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paul Durrant
>> <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Stefano Stabellini
>> <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>; qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] configure: detect presence of
>> libxendevicemodel
>>
>> On 02/03/17 11:54, Anthony PERARD wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:06:43AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Anthony PERARD [mailto:anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>> Sent: 01 March 2017 17:18
>>>>> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx; Stefano
>>>>> Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] configure: detect presence of
>> libxendevicemodel
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:53:54PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>>>>> This patch adds code in configure to set
>>>>> CONFIG_XEN_CTRL_INTERFACE_VERSION
>>>>>> to a new value of 490 if libxendevicemodel is present in the build
>>>>>> environment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Cc: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  configure | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>>>>>> index 8e8f18d..fc1e12b 100755
>>>>>> --- a/configure
>>>>>> +++ b/configure
>>>>>> @@ -1980,6 +1980,25 @@ EOF
>>>>>>    # Xen unstable
>>>>>>    elif
>>>>>>        cat > $TMPC <<EOF &&
>>>>>> +#undef XC_WANT_COMPAT_DEVICEMODEL_API
>>>>>> +#define __XEN_TOOLS__
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't __XEN_TOOLS__ supposed to be reserved for some to tools inside
>>>>> xen.git?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also it seems to be the only time this define is used in your patch
>>>>> series.
>>>>>
>>>> No. QEMU falls under the definition of 'tools' as far as Xen goes and the
>> hypercalls and xendevicemodel API are protected by that. The reason you
>> don't see it elsewhere is that xenctrl.h defines it. (See
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=tools/libxc/include/xenc
>> trl.h;hb=HEAD#l27).
>>>> I think that's a little underhand so I thought I'd make the new code in
>> configure more transparent. I can change it to just include xenctrl.h before
>> xendevicemodel.h if you'd prefer.
>>>
>>> I guess that is fine with __XEN_TOOLS__.
>>> You can add my
>>> Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>
>> Sorry for jumping in only now:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to base qemu's configure modification for support
>> of Xen 4.9 (and newer) on my just posted series introducing pkg-config?
>>
>> I'm just about to expand this series to all of Xen's libraries and I
>> already have a qemu patch at hand supporting this new scheme.
> 
> Ok, but I'm at v2 and I was literally just about to post. I guess it will 
> also be pretty trivial to change configure after this change has been applied.

Sure, this will work.

Its your decision. :-)


Juergen


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