linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations

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Date:	Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:35:03 -0800
From:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for	paravirtualizing
 critical operations

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 11:27, Rusty Russell wrote:
>   
>> Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need
>> to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of
>> defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT.
>>     
>
> Hmm, did this all ever compile in mainline? I had to do a few merges
> and in the end i get
>
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/kernel/spinlock.c: In function ‘_spin_lock_irqsave’:
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> include2/asm/spinlock.h:59: error: invalid 'asm': operand number missing after %
> -letter
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:593: Error: undefined symbol `paravirt_ops' in operation
> {standard input}:593: Error: undefined symbol `PARAVIRT_irq_enable' in operation
> {standard input}:605: Error: undefined symbol `paravirt_ops' in operation
> {standard input}:605: Error: undefined symbol `PARAVIRT_irq_disable' in operatio
> n
>   

Not seeing that here (on 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 with gcc 4.0.2).

> and lots of new warnings like
>
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: In function ‘set_intr_gate’:
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:1165: warning: implicit declarat
> ion of function ‘_set_gate’
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c: In function ‘_cpu_init’:
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c:754: warning: implicit decl
> aration of function ‘__set_tss_desc'
>   

Sounds like desc.h got reordered.  Somewhere, there was a broken patch 
once that did this, I thought we fixed that.

> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c: In function ‘intel_mach
> ine_check’:
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.eax’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.ebx’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.ecx’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.edx’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.esi’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.edi’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.ebp’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.esp’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.eflag
> s’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/lsrc/quilt/linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p4.c:158: warning: ‘dbg.eip’ 
> may be used uninitialized in this function
>   

Those appear to be valid warnings, with or without paravirt, due to the 
tacky glued inline oddity of intel_get_extended_msrs.

Zach
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