Re: The compiling of lastest KVM user space code FAIL on the lastest kernel tree

Zhiyong Wu
2009-04-08T01:17:14Z

HI, avi,

The issue is resolved successfully. Thanks for your direction.

Cheers,

Zhiyong Wu
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> Zhiyong Wu wrote:
>>
>> HI,
>>
>> when compiling kvm user space on the lastest kernel tree,
>>
>> the compile FAIL; but on 2.6.29, this compile has succeeded.
>>
>> The version of the lastest kernel tree is
>>
>> [root@fedora9 linux-2.6 {master}]$ git describe
>> v2.6.29-9854-gd508afb
>>
>> [root@fedora9 kvm-userspace {master}]$ make
>> .......
>> rm -f include/asm include-compat/asm
>> ln -sf asm-x86 include/asm
>> ln -sf asm-x86 include-compat/asm
>> make -C /home/zwu/kernel/linux-2.6/ 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 "
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/zwu/kernel/linux-2.6'
>>  CC [M]  /home/zwu/virt/kvm-userspace/kernel/x86/svm.o
>> In file included from /home/zwu/virt/kvm-userspace/kernel/x86/svm.c:57:
>> /home/zwu/virt/kvm-userspace/kernel/include/linux/kvm_host.h:191:
>> error: field \u2018mmu_notifier\u2019 has incomplete type
>> make[4]: *** [/home/zwu/virt/kvm-userspace/kernel/x86/svm.o] Error 1
>> make[3]: *** [/home/zwu/virt/kvm-userspace/kernel/x86] Error 2
>> make[2]: *** [_module_/home/zwu/virt/kvm-userspace/kernel] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zwu/kernel/linux-2.6'
>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/zwu/virt/kvm-userspace/kernel'
>> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
>>
>> It seems that the macro "CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER" is undefined in the
>> lastest kernel tree.
>>
>
> You need to select CONFIG_KVM in your .config; that will enable
> CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER.
>
>
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>