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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 26 2008 - 06:58:30 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> It quickly broke the build in testing:
>>
>> include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function âparavirt_pgd_free':
>> include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: In file included from
>> arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c:51:include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function
>> âparavirt_pgd_free':
>> include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
>>
>
> No, looks like my fault. The non-PARAVIRT version of
> paravirt_pgd_free() is:
>
> static inline void paravirt_pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *) {}
>
> but C doesn't like missing parameter names, even if unused.
>
> This should fix it:

that fixed the build but now we've got a boot crash with this config:

time.c: Detected 2010.304 MHz processor.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: [<0000000000000000>]
PGD 0
Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
CPU 0

with:

http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jun_26_12_46_46_CEST_2008.bad

i've pushed out the current tip/xen-64bit branch, so that you can see
how things look like at the moment, but i cannot put it into tip/master
yet.

Ingo
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