[RFC PATCH 4/5] ARM: enable linking against eventfd and irqchip

Nikolay Nikolaev n.nikolaev at virtualopensystems.com
Fri Dec 5 04:14:35 PST 2014


On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Christoffer Dall
<christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> Inidicate KVM in the subject please.
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:27:06PM +0200, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote:
>> This enables compilation of the eventfd feature on ARM.
>
> does this enable anything else than the ioeventfd stuff so that
> everything is in place to do this safely now?
Inspecting the eventfd.c I see that there is the IRQFD code
conditionally compiled when CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD is defined.
 I think this is enabled for arm/arm64 in Eric's IRQFD patcheries, so
we should be safe now.

regards,
Nikolay Nikolaev

>
> -Christoffer



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