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

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-03T15:47:51Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>
>> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>>> Excluding the x86/xen-64bit topic solves the problem.
>>>>
>>>> It triggered on two 64-bit machines so it seems readily reproducible
>>>> with that config.
>>>>
>>>> i've pushed the failing tree out to tip/tmp.xen-64bit.Tue_Jul__1_10_55
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The patch to fix this is on tip/x86/unify-setup: "x86: setup_arch() &&
>>> early_ioremap_init()". Logically that patch should probably be in the
>>> xen64 branch, since it's only meaningful with the early_ioremap
>>> unification.
>>>
>> ah, indeed - it was missing from tip/master due to:
>>
>> | commit ac998c259605741efcfbd215533b379970ba1d9f
>> | Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>> | Date: Mon Jun 30 12:01:31 2008 +0200
>> |
>> | Revert "x86: setup_arch() && early_ioremap_init()"
>> |
>> | This reverts commit 181b3601a1a7d2ac3ace6b23cb3204450a4f9a27.
>>
>> because that change needed the other changes from xen-64bit.
>>
>> will retry tomorrow.
>>
>
> ok, i've re-added x86/xen-64bit and it's looking good in testing so far.
>

Great. I'm hoping this stuff will be OK for the next merge, so I'm
primed for fast turnaround bugfixes ;)

Also, I have the series of followup patches to actually implement 64-bit
Xen which have much less impact on the non-Xen parts of the tree. I'll
probably mail them out later today.

Thanks,
J