From: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Darryl Dixon <esrever_otua@pythonhacker.is-a-geek.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unknown symbol __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:06:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8ca3537050725230644b14a1a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8ca353705072522566bca5f5d@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/26/05, Pascal Terjan <pterjan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/26/05, Darryl Dixon <esrever_otua@pythonhacker.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> > Hi All, Fabrice,
> >
> > Compiling the new kqemu-0.7.1 on Fedora Core 4 with kernel
> > 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 gives this error:
> >
> > -------------8<-------------------
> > [dixond@unixadmindazfc2 kqemu]$ make
> > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4/build M=`pwd` modules
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-i686'
> > CC [M] /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu-linux.o
> > cp /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu-mod-i386.o /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu-mod.o
> > LD [M] /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu.o
> > Building modules, stage 2.
> > MODPOST
> > Warning: could not find /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/.kqemu-mod.o.cmd
> > for /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu-mod.o
> > *** Warning: "__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC" [/opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu.ko]
> > undefined!
> > CC /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu.mod.o
> > LD [M] /opt/src/qemu-0.7.1/kqemu/kqemu.ko
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4-i686'
>
> My understanding of the problem :
> on i386, in pgtable.h we have
> extern unsigned long long __PAGE_KERNEL, __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
> #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC)
>
> an there is EXPORT_SYMBOL(__PAGE_KERNEL) but not for __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC
>
> on x86_64 :
> #define __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC \
> (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED)
> #define MAKE_GLOBAL(x) __pgprot((x) | _PAGE_GLOBAL)
> #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC)
>
> So, on i386 __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC is an extern variable wich is not
> exported and not a macro.
>
> I wrote a patch on
> http://www.zarb.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/plf/SPECS/non-free/dkms-kqemu/kqemu-0.7.1-PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup
> but I don't know much kernel stuff so I have no idea how much it is
> broken :-)
>
after think to what I wrote, as PAGE_KERNEL is OK, a simpler and
better patch may be to use & ~_PAGE_NX
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-26 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-26 4:28 [Qemu-devel] Unknown symbol __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC Darryl Dixon
2005-07-26 5:56 ` Pascal Terjan
2005-07-26 6:06 ` Pascal Terjan [this message]
2005-07-26 11:10 ` Darryl Dixon
2005-07-26 15:53 ` Sebastian Kaliszewski
2005-07-26 21:34 ` Fabrice Bellard
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