On 18.09.2023 10:51, Oleksii wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-09-14 at 17:08 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 14.09.2023 16:56, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
>>> Based on two patch series [1] and [2], the idea of which is to
>>> provide minimal
>>> amount of things for a complete Xen build, a large amount of
>>> headers are the same
>>> or almost the same, so it makes sense to move them to asm-generic.
>>>
>>> Also, providing such stub headers should help future architectures
>>> to add
>>> a full Xen build.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[email protected]/
>>> [2]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[email protected]/
>>>
>>> Oleksii Kurochko (29):
>>>   xen/asm-generic: introduce stub header spinlock.h
>>
>> At the example of this, personally I think this goes too far. Headers
>> in
>> asm-generic should be for the case where an arch elects to not
>> implement
>> certain functionality. Clearly spinlocks are required uniformly.
> It makes sense. Then I will back to the option [2] where I introduced
> all this headers as part of RISC-V architecture. 

You did see though that in a reply to my own mail I said I take back the
comment, at least as far as this header (and perhaps several others) are
concerned.

Jan

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