Re: some kernel headers broken in current git ?

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:15:48PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Gabriel C wrote:
> >>>BITS_PER_LONG was originally set in <asm/types.h>:
> >>>
> >>>     39  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> >>>     40  # define BITS_PER_LONG 32
> >>>     41  #else
> >>>     42  # define BITS_PER_LONG 64
> >>>     43  #endif
> >>User land does not know anything about 'CONFIG_X86_32' right ?
> 
> Wait... this is *user mode* code at this point?
No - it is a kernel module.
But what a messy codebase to look at...

> 
> Linux kernel headers aren't includable from user space without 
> processing them through "make headers_install".
> 
> However, from looking at the filenames in your list, it doesn't look 
> like userspace code at all (although they're wrappered to the degree 
> that it's somewhat hard to tell.)  Thus, you're building a kernel 
> module, not userland.
> 
> >That is the problem. I've changed the headers virtualbox need from 
> >
> >#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 to #ifdef __i386__ and all compiled fine. 
> >
> >( subarch headers includes are changed manually still but I think it is 
> >the same problem )
> >
> >Also all the headers got these defines with CONFIG_X86_32 does not work.
> >
> >...
> >
> >#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> ># include "foo_32.h"
> >#else
> ># include "foo_64.h"
> >#endif
> >
> >...
> >
> >results in including both header files on my i686 box.
> >
> >I don't know what the right way is to fix that , define some who 
> >CONFIG_X86_32 to __i386__ ? or just s/CONFIG_X86_32/__i386__/ ?
> 
> It sounds like something is seriously broken in your setup, or in the 
> VirtualBox makefiles.  From the looks of it, I would say the latter.

>From the file "the-linux-kernel.h":
/*
 * Include iprt/types.h to install the bool wrappers.
 * Then use the linux bool type for all the stuff include here.
 */
#include <iprt/types.h>
#define bool linux_bool

And that file named "types.h" is not a kernel types.h - so we miss that
file. I guess it was pulled in by some other headerfile in the past.

But I also notice that it latest source from VirtualBox the
line number for include of spinlock-h does not match.


This is most likely a combination of VirtualBox doing strange strange things
and some deep dependency missing in one of the headerfiles.

Add a #include <linux/types.h> to the-linux-kernel.h and let us know if it helps.

	Sam