Re: Kernel panic while compiling kernel

[Zachary Amsden <zamsden@cisco.com>]

Keir Fraser wrote:

>>xen/include/asm-i386/apic.h for one... and there are more dangerous 
>>looking things:
>>
>>xen/include/asm-i386/dma.h includes both "linux/config.h" and 
>>"linux/spinklock.h".  This is very likely to be built into the drivers, 
>>and likely to cause major havoc if you change the cacheline size.
>>
>>Only arch/i386/Rules.mk specifies -nostdinc.  This is really dangerous 
>>if you are not building on a 2.4.24 or very close kernel, and makes 
>>cross-compiling out of the question.
>>
>>I should have a patch for a slightly cleaner build today that you could 
>>try out.  It's likely to be largish, since I may need to pull in some 
>>additional headers from 2.4.24.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm not sure that I understand what you are trying to do. 
>#include <linux/foo.h> and #include <xeno/foo.h> should mean the same
>thing when building Xen -- all kernel object files should be built
>with -nostdinc, and incude/linux is a symlink to include/xeno.
>
>When building Linux for Xen, it does not use any Xen headers except
>those in include/hypervisor-ifs -- all other headers are private to
>Xen!
>  
>

I'm not talking about Linux -- I'm talking about Xen itself.  Xen 
depends on the local system includes, which is not good.  Xen is 
definitely not built with -nostdinc, which is what I am trying to fix.

Zachary Amsden
zamsden@cisco.com


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