Re: upgrade 2.6.12 - testing wanted

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com> [2005-07-07 14:31]:
> On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:34, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we are going to upgrade very soon the repository to 2.6.12.
> > meanwhile I'ld appreciate if some people could test the patch, and
> > see if there's no regressions or anything bad before everybody get to
> > use it.
> >
> > just get latest snapshot of unstable, then do:
> >
> > mv linux-2.6.11-xen-sparse/ linux-2.6.12-xen-sparse/
> > mv patches/linux-2.6.11/ patches/linux-2.6.12/
> > rm patches/linux-2.6.12/agpgart.patch
> > rm patches/linux-2.6.12/i386-cpu-hotplug-updated-for-mm.patch
> > rm patches/linux-2.6.12/iomap.patch
> > rm patches/linux-2.6.12/linux-2.6.11.12.patch
> > rm patches/linux-2.6.12/udp-frag.patch
> >
> > get the patch here:
> >
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/temp/xen-upg
> >rade-2612-rc2.diff.bz2
> 
> on xenU:
> 
> # make
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
> make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   CHK     usr/initramfs_list
>   CC      arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.o
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c: In function `play_dead':
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c:119: error: `per_cpu__cpu_state' 
> undeclared (first use in this function)
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c:119: error: (Each undeclared identifier 
> is reported only once
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c:119: error: for each function it appears 
> in.)
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c:119: warning: type defaults to `int' in 
> declaration of `type name'
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c:119: error: invalid type argument of 
> `unary *'
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c:125: warning: type defaults to `int' in 
> declaration of `type name'
> arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.c:125: error: invalid type argument of 
> `unary *'
> make[1]: *** [arch/xen/i386/kernel/process.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/xen/i386/kernel] Error 2

Looks like a host of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU changes didn't make it into the
headers.  I'm cleaning this up and I'll post a patch if someone doesn't
beat me to it.

-- 
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
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