Re: [PATCH v1 00/29] Introduce stub headers necessary for full Xen build

[Oleksii <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>]

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/cover.1694543103.git.sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1692181079.git.oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > 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. 

~ Oleksii