On 2012-07-17 18:41, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Rather than hardcoding the list of architectures in the kernel
> header update script, just import headers for every architecture
> which supports KVM. This reduces the number of QEMU files which
> need to be updated to add support for a new KVM architecture.
> It also means we won't break if the kernel drops support for
> an architecture in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> ---
> I'd like this for ARM, obviously. NB that this change will mean we'll
> pick up the ia64 kvm headers next time somebody does a kernel header
> update; this seems harmless (and perhaps even useful?). ia64 'make
> headers_install' is a bit noisy as of 3.5-rc5 but succeeds anyway.

IA64 KVM support is dead and may be removed at some point from the
kernel. What about blacklisting it here already to avoid that noise?

> 
>  scripts/update-linux-headers.sh |   11 ++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
> index 9d2a4bc..2c76685 100755
> --- a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
> +++ b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
> @@ -28,7 +28,16 @@ if [ -z "$output" ]; then
>      output="$PWD"
>  fi
>  
> -for arch in x86 powerpc s390; do
> +# This will pick up non-directories too (eg "Kconfig") but we will
> +# ignore them in the next loop.
> +ARCHLIST=$(cd "$linux/arch" && echo *)
> +
> +for arch in $ARCHLIST; do
> +    # Discard anything which isn't a KVM-supporting architecture
> +    if ! [ -e "$linux/arch/$arch/include/asm/kvm.h" ]; then
> +        continue
> +    fi
> +
>      make -C "$linux" INSTALL_HDR_PATH="$tmpdir" SRCARCH=$arch headers_install
>  
>      rm -rf "$output/linux-headers/asm-$arch"
> 

Looks good otherwise. Clearly better than a hardcoded list.

Jan

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