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

Ingo Molnar
2008-06-27T15:57:33Z

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> that fixed the build but now we've got a boot crash with this config:
>>>
>>
>> plus -tip auto-testing found another build failure with:
>>
>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jun_26_12_46_46_CEST_2008.bad
>>
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1201: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1205: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1209: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
>> arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1213: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
>>
>>
>
> I'm confused. How did this config both crash and not build?

i'm testing on multiple systems in parallel, each is running randconfig
kernels. One 64-bit system found a build bug, the other one found a boot
crash.

This can happen if certain configs build fine (but crash), certain
configs dont even build. Each system does a random walk of the config
space.

I've applied your two fixes and i'm re-testing.

Ingo