Re: [PATCH] Fix CONFIG_PARAVIRT for 2.6.19-rc5-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On 9 Nov 2006 08:31:58 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:20:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:01:42 +1100
> > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > OK, at least two patches got dropped on the way from the mm tree to
> > > Andi's tree: the desc.h cleanup, and the processor.h rearrangement.
> > > Merging into Andi's tree without these patches must have been a
> > > nightmare 8(
> > > 
> > > Andi then tried to fix it with x86_64-mm-paravirt-compile.patch but then
> > > it didn't boot so he disabled it in x86_64-mm-paravirt-broken.patch  
> > > 
> > > This patch undoes those two patches and rearranges processor.h correctly
> > > so the kernel compiles and boots with CONFIG_PARAVIRT.  Andi's
> > > "paravirt-compile" patch also cleans up the spinlock header, which is
> > > good but should probably be patched separately.
> > 
> > Fun.  Andi, I have a mountain of fixes against your tree.  Whatever you
> > do, don't change anything!  I'll get it all sent over later today.
> 
> I think for the paravirt ops stuff it would be best to respin it -- e.g.
> let Rusty submit a new clean patchkit. That's much better than trying
> to add lots of fixup patches. 

That's what I'm doing.

> I'll go through the other patches.

OK.  Please drop all the paravirt patches, publish a new tree then let us
know when it's there.