Re: Wierdness - linux-next KVM patch breaks Dell Latitude D820, KVM not in kernel

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:32:46 EDT, Beth Kon said:

> > 3) no KVM in this kernel:
> > % grep KVM .config
> > CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
> > ## CONFIG_KVM is not set
> >   
> Hi Vladis. I'm at a loss regarding my patch being the problem if it is 
> really the case that CONFIG_KVM is not set.  Are you sure that is the 
> config being used?

Yeah, I was quite confused by the bisect results as well, I may end up
re-doing it just to make sure I didn't screw something up along the way (since
I started it with -rc7/HEAD as the good/bad, but most of the resulting
kernels reported a pre-rc7 release (a 2.6.28 at one point, IIRC, and it
finished at 31-rc2.

%  pwd
/usr/src/valdis/linux-next
% grep KVM .config
CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y
# CONFIG_KVM is not set

>                    My only other thought (assuming somehow CONFIG_KVM 
> *is* set) is to be sure your repository also has 
> b4eba884776b5ab77fef1febbd3203e54a66d0bd.

Yes, that commit is also in the repository, though I'm not sure what
difference it makes since it hits arch/x86/kvm/x86.c which isn't even built
in my .config.  I'm also confused why the trace.o module *did* get rebuilt
when it doesn't look like it would have needed it, and why that seems to have
been the critical issue.

Oh well.. off to go re-do the bisect, I guess.  Wish me luck. ;)

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