Re: KVM-87 compile failed

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 06/26/2009 08:40 AM, gao@schrodinger.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Compiling KVM-87 failed with following error:
>
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r5/build M=`pwd` \
>                  LINUXINCLUDE="-I`pwd`/include -Iinclude \
>                   -Iarch/x86/include -I`pwd`/include-compat \
>                  -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
>                  -include `pwd`/x86/external-module-compat.h " \
>                  "$@"
>    CC [M]  /tmp/kvm-87/kvm/kernel/x86/vmx.o
> /tmp/kvm-87/kvm/kernel/x86/vmx.c: In function ‘ept_rsvd_mask’:
> /tmp/kvm-87/kvm/kernel/x86/vmx.c:3272: error: ‘struct cpuinfo_x86’ has no
> member named ‘x86_phys_bits’
> make[4]: *** [/tmp/kvm-87/kvm/kernel/x86/vmx.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [/tmp/kvm-87/kvm/kernel/x86] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [_module_/tmp/kvm-87/kvm/kernel] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [kvm-kmod] Error 2
>
> GCC-4.3.2-r3, kernel 2.6.29-gentoo-r5.
>
> Compiling worked fine with KVM-86.
>
>    

kvm-87 is fairly compile-broken on 32-bit hosts.  I need to improve my 
compile testing infrastructure, or make the kvm-xx release candidate 
process public.

You can work around it by replacing 'boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits' in 
vmx.c by the constant 40.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function