Subject: Re: [PATCH -fixes v2] RISC-V: KVM: Require HAVE_KVM

From: Sean Christopherson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:40:36 -0800

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 6:07 PM Andrew Jones <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > KVM requires EVENTFD, which is selected by HAVE_KVM. Other KVM
> > supporting architectures select HAVE_KVM and then their KVM
> > Kconfigs ensure its there with a depends on HAVE_KVM. Make RISCV
> > consistent with that approach which fixes configs which have KVM
> > but not EVENTFD, as was discovered with a randconfig test.
> >
> > Fixes: 99cdc6c18c2d ("RISC-V: Add initial skeletal KVM support")
> > Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <[email-masked]>
> 
> Queued this patch for Linux-6.8

That should be unnecessary.  Commit caadf876bb74 ("KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON"),
which is in Paolo's pull request for 6.8, addresses the EVENTFD issue.  And the
rest of Paolo's series[*], which presumably will get queued for 6.9, eliminates
HAVE_KVM entirely.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]