Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-44 release

Avi Kivity
2007-09-24T08:18:24Z

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>
>>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> An important fix to guest smp (it boots now!), and a performance
>>>> improvement on Intel hardware. I get about 5% boost on a kernel build.
>>>>
>>>> There's a new module parameter to kvm-intel.ko that can disable this
>>>> mechanism, bypass_guest_pf. Load the module with bypass_guest_pf=0
>>>> to disable the optimization. It shouldn't be necessary to do that on
>>>> current processors; it's mostly to protect kvm against changes in
>>>> hardware since the patch uses reserved bits.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.10.el5-x86_64'
>>> LD
>>> /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/built-in.o
>>> CC [M] /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/svm.o
>>> CC [M] /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/vmx.o
>>> CC [M]
>>> /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/vmx-debug.o
>>> CC [M]
>>> /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/kvm_main.o
>>> CC [M] /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/mmu.o
>>> /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/mmu.c:1152: error:
>>> expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before
>>> 'last_updated_pte_accessed'
>>> /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/mmu.c: In function
>>> 'kvm_mmu_pte_write':
>>> /home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/mmu.c:1180: error:
>>> implicit declaration of function 'last_updated_pte_accessed'
>>> make[2]: ***
>>> [/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel/mmu.o] Error 1
>>> make[1]: ***
>>> [_module_/home/robot/rpm/BUILD/kvm-kmod-44/_kmod_build_/kernel] Error 2
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.1.10.el5-x86_64'
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Try adding '#define bool _Bool' to kernel/external-module-compat.h, and
>> let us know. I'll fix it for kvm-45.
>>
>
> i just put after the #include <linux/smp.h> but it doesn't help.
>
>

That should have worked. How about '#define bool int'?

> ps. anyway if you check my dail snapshot build you can see there is no
> build after 22th (probably because of this. anyway i see that the
> snapshot are generated at 0:30, but it which timezone?
>
>

IST (UTC+2)

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