[PATCH] vfio: unhide vdev->debug_root
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 12:55:37 EST
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
When debugfs is disabled, the hisilicon driver now fails to build:
drivers/vfio/pci/hisilicon/hisi_acc_vfio_pci.c: In function 'hisi_acc_vfio_debug_init':
drivers/vfio/pci/hisilicon/hisi_acc_vfio_pci.c:1671:62: error: 'struct vfio_device' has no member named 'debug_root'
1671 | vfio_dev_migration = debugfs_lookup("migration", vdev->debug_root);
| ^~
The driver otherwise relies on dead-code elimination, but this reference
fails. The single struct member is not going to make much of a difference
for memory consumption, so just keep this visible unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
----
This seems to be a new build failure, but I could not pinpoint which
commit caused it, as both the #ifdef and the the use were introduced
a while ago.
---
include/linux/vfio.h | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/vfio.h b/include/linux/vfio.h
index 50b474334a19..31b826efba00 100644
--- a/include/linux/vfio.h
+++ b/include/linux/vfio.h
@@ -74,13 +74,11 @@ struct vfio_device {
u8 iommufd_attached:1;
#endif
u8 cdev_opened:1;
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
/*
* debug_root is a static property of the vfio_device
* which must be set prior to registering the vfio_device.
*/
struct dentry *debug_root;
-#endif
};
/**
--
2.39.5