[PATCH v3] drivers/virtio: Enable virtio mem for ARM64

Gavin Shan gshan at redhat.com
Tue Jan 18 23:46:25 PST 2022


Hi Michael,

On 1/19/22 3:39 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 09:05:51AM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> This enables virtio-mem device support by allowing to enable the
>> corresponding kernel config option (CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM) on the
>> architecture.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
>> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
>> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>
>> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> v3: Pick ack-by tags from Jonathan and Michael
>> ---
>>   drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 7 ++++---
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
>> index 34f80b7a8a64..74c8b0c7bc33 100644
>> --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
>> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ config VIRTIO_BALLOON
>>   config VIRTIO_MEM
>>   	tristate "Virtio mem driver"
>>   	default m
>> -	depends on X86_64
>> +	depends on X86_64 || ARM64
>>   	depends on VIRTIO
>>   	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>>   	depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>> @@ -116,8 +116,9 @@ config VIRTIO_MEM
>>   	 This driver provides access to virtio-mem paravirtualized memory
>>   	 devices, allowing to hotplug and hotunplug memory.
>>   
>> -	 This driver was only tested under x86-64, but should theoretically
>> -	 work on all architectures that support memory hotplug and hotremove.
>> +	 This driver was only tested under x86-64 and arm64, but should
>> +	 theoretically work on all architectures that support memory hotplug
>> +	 and hotremove.
>>   
> 
> BTW isn't there a symbol saying "memory hotplug" that we can depend on?
> 

You mean to change it like below? Actually, both looks good
to me :)

  +	 This driver was only tested under x86-64 and arm64, but should
  +	 theoretically work on all architectures.
  
>>   	 If unsure, say M.
>>   

Thanks,
Gavin




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