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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> .
>>
> 


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