Re: [PATCH 00 of 36] x86/paravirt: groundwork for 64-bit Xen support

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-26T18:26:24Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>
>>> It quickly broke the build in testing:
>>>
>>> include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
>>> include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
>>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: In file included from
>>> arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c:51:include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function
>>> ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
>>> include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
>>>
>>>
>> No, looks like my fault. The non-PARAVIRT version of
>> paravirt_pgd_free() is:
>>
>> static inline void paravirt_pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *) {}
>>
>> but C doesn't like missing parameter names, even if unused.
>>
>> This should fix it:
>>
>
> that fixed the build but now we've got a boot crash with this config:
>
> time.c: Detected 2010.304 MHz processor.
> spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> IP: [<0000000000000000>]
> PGD 0
> Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
> Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
> CPU 0
>

What stage during boot? I'm seeing an initrd problem, but that's
relatively late.

J