linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 00 of 36] x86/paravirt: groundwork for 64-bit Xen support

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Message-ID: <20080630181221.GF23739@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:21 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 00 of 36] x86/paravirt: groundwork for
	64-bit Xen support


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

>> config and full log can be found at:
>>
>>  http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Mon_Jun_30_11_11_51_CEST_2008.bad
>>   
>
> That config doesn't build for me.  When I put it in place and do "make 
> oldconfig" it still asks for lots of config options (which I just set 
> to default).  But when I build it fails with:

try 'make ARCH=i386 oldconfig' - does it work better that way?

> include2/asm/page_64.h:46:2: error: #error "CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START must be a multiple of 2MB"
> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
>
> I can fix that, of course, but it doesn't give me confidence I'm 
> testing what you are...

the problem there is that the 32-bit config has:

CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000

which the 64-bit make oldconfig picked up, but that start address is not 
valid on 64-bit.

	Ingo
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