Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-44 release

Avi Kivity
2007-09-24T07:43:29Z

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.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function