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 A40AAC433F5 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244344AbhK3PFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2021 10:05:44 -0500 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org ([145.40.73.55]:60444 "EHLO sin.source.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S243356AbhK3O5J (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:57:09 -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 96C2BCE1A72; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08D3EC53FD0; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:53:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1638284025; bh=ZK02DqHmVPKJFN75jdMuswmo5c0dgylhn9mN1ZGK8lU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=aKTSMWnNBJBbQUZCqiYQ9kMNhuZmrRV0gDxm85nt3oOEdAbbxRjjJzG/anoqX/R2F Hxq/yRlsxXzRBBT4tZAD3ZapFZU1VFf+aKuWWkpH0sudNktHXPBziM8aU2JXUcXbL8 RkShgx0WERgo7fdBqbnKmHf+sTMcYqM5c/tXPnlUlZtXsTtXv65tSdfN1ky+EAYp4o e1mAZvXjJhLa+fGDSynzwHCkM5nejs0mlURH8MLK6FWzFWUTNhNUlc6OKMDOXObjvK a34002JmdK4VVu6HcGQVa6IOCp4ZH2CVyFhT3XVI6YguCBgih7YvQ0hqqnBH554/N+ 7p8HQtppI2RaQ== 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 4.9 02/12] xen/privcmd: make option visible in Kconfig Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:53:30 -0500 Message-Id: <20211130145341.946891-2-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.33.0 In-Reply-To: <20211130145341.946891-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20211130145341.946891-1-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 98b8f32053229..6ae96c12b8819 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig @@ -206,9 +206,15 @@ 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