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Re: [Xen-devel] compile error of HVM pv drivers

To: Kieran Mansley <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Zhao, Yunfeng" <yunfeng.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] compile error of HVM pv drivers
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:51:41 +0100
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On 30/7/07 15:47, "Kieran Mansley" <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In that case replacing the calls (there are two in that file) to
> netif_tx_lock_bh() with:
> 
>  spin_lock_bh(&vif_state->np->netdev->xmit_lock);
> 
> And similarly the calls to netif_tx_unlock_bh() with spin_unlock_bh(),
> may solve your problem.
> 
> If this works for you I'll make a patch that uses the kernel version to
> decide which is appropriate.

Compat issues when building PV-on-HVM drivers are patched up out-of-band in
the special 
unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/compat-include/xen/platform-compat.h
header file.

 -- Keir


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