Hi Jan and Andrew,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> Subject: [4.17?] Re: [PATCH] x86/HVM+shim: fix build
> when !CONFIG_GRANT_TABLE
> 
> On 01.12.2022 17:01, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > On 01/12/2022 15:57, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> The HVM flavor of the hypercall handlers exists only when GRANT_TABLE
> is
> >> enabled, while surrogate shim variants exist only for the purpose of PV.
> >> (Also scratch out the Arm variant in that case; what exactly is used in
> >> that cell of the new table row doesn't really matter.)
> >>
> >> Fixes: 8523851dbc49 ("xen/x86: call hypercall handlers via generated
> macro")
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> >> Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
> >
> > Thanks for investigating.
> >
> > Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > Thoughts about inclusion into 4.17?  This is a build time regression vs
> > 4.16.
> 
> I thought this was odd enough a configuration, but since you ask, let me
> forward the question to Henry.

I think a build time regression should be fixed. We cannot assume users
will not use this configuration (as Jan pointed out in IRC). So for 4.17:

Release-acked-by: Henry Wang <[email protected]>

But if OSSTest is exploded after merging this patch, I would like to request
a revert since we don't have too much time left for the due date. Hopefully
everyone is fine with that.

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Jan

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