Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/57] Boot-time page size selection for arm64

From: Thomas Tai
Date: Wed Oct 23 2024 - 17:04:09 EST



On 10/17/2024 8:32 AM, Ryan Roberts wrote:
On 17/10/2024 13:27, Petr Tesarik wrote:
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:55:11 +0100
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]
The series is arranged as follows:

- patch 1: Add macros required for converting non-arch code to support
boot-time page size selection
- patches 2-36: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption from all
non-arch code
I have just tried to recompile the openSUSE kernel with these patches
applied, and I'm running into this:

CC arch/arm64/hyperv/hv_core.o
In file included from ../arch/arm64/hyperv/hv_core.c:14:0:
../include/linux/hyperv.h:158:5: error: variably modified ‘reserved2’ at file scope
u8 reserved2[PAGE_SIZE - 68];
^~~~~~~~~

It looks like one more place which needs a patch, right?
As mentioned in the cover letter, so far I've only converted enough to get the
defconfig *image* building (i.e. no modules). If you are compiling a different
config or compiling the modules for defconfig, you will likely run into these
types of issues.

It would be nice if you could provide the defconfig you are using; I also ran
into build issues when using the arch/arm64/configs/defconfig.
Thank you,
Thomas


That said, I do have some patches to fix Hyper-V, which Michael Kelley was kind
enough to send me.

I understand that Suse might be able to help with wider performance testing - if
that's the reason you are trying to compile, you could send me your config and
I'll start working on fixing up other drivers?

Thanks,
Ryan

Petr T