From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606B7C433F5 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:01:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244398AbhK3PBp (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:01:45 -0500 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org ([145.40.73.55]:59758 "EHLO sin.source.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242668AbhK3O4Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:56:16 -0500 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FAAFCE1A76; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C9E30C53FCF; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:52:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1638283972; bh=JsgGG7B/KqUw9wC6FuWxsYS1GzJZsMvRNcihS8b7emg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ps6YoDk9Malc2RTmPV8tiInFK6roUOEao7cv6ORRWMZ34IbwT+ByvKsOnzhbEmltV gZ+ye2yaViIXwz8kWm1Vo31sZlvg0DAr/BoXQLqIXQ3YxUpIdslW8Kos0JWW9J0w18 LDcf+MkcuFZIzFYq3est6yUM992IiuZhCmJY5/rNaWyWuwKMIAT2T5h3kuXXsety5z Nin0msv+YGP/2gYtJavQtzVrzjZzupenjft8pcwYIUUHaItE+L+yz1JMODilgwoqe+ 3ba+NhXCslRxnvGn/aJ+fmvlxiFrazh3vFLgr7x/6iu7hycdnvUqhgv1MTtfLDQYet cOl0OrUB1pxGw== From: Sasha Levin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Juergen Gross , =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= , Jan Beulich , Boris Ostrovsky , Sasha Levin , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 04/17] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:52:28 -0500 Message-Id: <20211130145243.946407-4-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.33.0 In-Reply-To: <20211130145243.946407-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20211130145243.946407-1-sashal@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: Ignore Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Juergen Gross [ Upstream commit 897919ad8b42eb8222553838ab82414a924694aa ] This configuration option provides a misc device as an API to userspace. Make this API usable without having to select the module as a transitive dependency. This also fixes an issue where localyesconfig would select CONFIG_XEN_PRIVCMD=m because it was not visible and defaulted to building as module. [boris: clarified help message per Jan's suggestion] Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211116143323.18866-1-jgross@suse.com Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/xen/Kconfig | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig index 0505eeb593b5c..8e4fff3cbaf0e 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig @@ -258,9 +258,15 @@ config XEN_SCSI_BACKEND if guests need generic access to SCSI devices. config XEN_PRIVCMD - tristate + tristate "Xen hypercall passthrough driver" depends on XEN default m + help + The hypercall passthrough driver allows privileged user programs to + perform Xen hypercalls. This driver is normally required for systems + running as Dom0 to perform privileged operations, but in some + disaggregated Xen setups this driver might be needed for other + domains, too. config XEN_STUB bool "Xen stub drivers" -- 2.33.0