On 9/30/20 1:05 PM, Dongjiu Geng wrote: > > On 2020/9/30 18:35, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> On 9/30/20 7:08 AM, Dongjiu Geng wrote: >>> On 2020/9/29 20:56, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >>>> As only the Virt machine uses the RAS Virtualization feature (see >>>> commit 2afa8c8519: "hw/arm/virt: Introduce a RAS machine option"), >>>> restrict the APEI tables generation code to the virt machine. >>> >>> APEI is a generic feature for X86 and arm64. X86 platform also can use it, >>> although currently it was mainly >>> used by ARM64. what is reason that we restrict APEI tables generation to >>> the 'virt' machine? >> >> It is currently only selected on (all) the ARM machines, not the X86 >> ones. I am simply restricting it to the 'virt' machine which is the >> single one enabling the RAS. Without RAS the table is not built, so >> for the case of the SBSA-Ref machine this code is unreachable, no need >> to select ACPI_APEI. >> >> When a X86 machine configure a RAS it will have to 'select ACPI_APEI' >> to get it built (I'm not forbidding it, I'm restricting it to where >> it is used). > > Got it, thanks for the explanation. > > Reviewed-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdong...@huawei.com>
Thanks, I'll reword the description, ... > > BTW:There is a build test error, but it is seems do not related with this > patch. > https://patchew.org/logs/20200929125609.1088330-1-phi...@redhat.com/testing.docker-quick@centos7/?type=message ... and look at that error before posting. > >> >>> >>>> >>>> Fixes: aa16508f1d ("ACPI: Build related register address fields via >>>> hardware error fw_cfg blob") >>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> >>>> --- >>>> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> >>>> Cc: Xiang Zheng <zhengxia...@huawei.com> >>>> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.came...@huawei.com> >>>> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> >>>> Cc: Dongjiu Geng <gengdong...@huawei.com> >>>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> >>>> --- >>>> default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak | 1 - >>>> hw/arm/Kconfig | 1 + >>>> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak >>>> b/default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak >>>> index 9a94ebd0be..08a32123b4 100644 >>>> --- a/default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak >>>> +++ b/default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak >>>> @@ -43,4 +43,3 @@ CONFIG_FSL_IMX7=y >>>> CONFIG_FSL_IMX6UL=y >>>> CONFIG_SEMIHOSTING=y >>>> CONFIG_ALLWINNER_H3=y >>>> -CONFIG_ACPI_APEI=y >>>> diff --git a/hw/arm/Kconfig b/hw/arm/Kconfig >>>> index f303c6bead..7d040827af 100644 >>>> --- a/hw/arm/Kconfig >>>> +++ b/hw/arm/Kconfig >>>> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ config ARM_VIRT >>>> select ACPI_MEMORY_HOTPLUG >>>> select ACPI_HW_REDUCED >>>> select ACPI_NVDIMM >>>> + select ACPI_APEI >>>> >>>> config CHEETAH >>>> bool >>>> >>> >> >> . >> >