Re: [Xen-devel] Problems Building Xen 4.0.x on ia64 (various releases)

["KUWAMURA Shin'ya" <kuwa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

>>>>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:08:16 -0430
>>>>> jortega@xxxxxxxxx("Julio C. Ortega")  said:
> 
> I've faced a couple of problems building Xen 4.0.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.2rc1
> from sources on an itanium2 machine running debian 6.0
> I'll describe the problems i've faced with all three releases.
> 
> XEN 4.0.0:
> In file included from xc_dom_ia64.c:26:
> ia64/asm/dom_fw_common.h:47:23: error: asm/fpswa.h: No such file or
> directory

Could you try gcc-4.1 instead of gcc-4.4? Building xen with GCC 4.4
has a known problem and using GCC 4.1 can avoid it:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2010-05/msg00007.html

> XEN 4.0.1 & XEN 4.0.2rc1 (testing)
> /root/xen-4.0.1/xen/common/built_in.o: In function `kexec_exec':
> /root/xen-4.0.1/xen/common/kexec.c:493: undefined reference to
> `continue_hypercall_on_cpu'
> 4.0.2rc1:
> /root/xen-4.0.2rc1/xen/common/built_in.o: In function `kexec_exec':
> /root/xen-4.0.2rc1/xen/common/kexec.c:493: undefined reference to
> `continue_hypercall_on_cpu'
> make[3]: *** [/root/xen-4.0.2rc1/xen/xen-syms] Error 1
> Digging up and googling i've found out nothing, but seems weird that
> particularly continue_hypercall_on_cpu() it's only present in
> architecture specific include files.

You are right. Could you apply the attached patch?
# Notice that this fix is ad hoc.

Best regards,
-- 
  KUWAMURA Shin'ya

diff -r b536ebfba183 xen/common/kexec.c
--- a/xen/common/kexec.c        Wed Aug 25 09:22:42 2010 +0100
+++ b/xen/common/kexec.c        Mon Dec 20 14:44:33 2010 +0900
@@ -490,7 +490,12 @@ static int kexec_exec(XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(v
     {
     case KEXEC_TYPE_DEFAULT:
         image = &kexec_image[base + pos];
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
         ret = continue_hypercall_on_cpu(0, kexec_reboot, image);
+#else
+        one_cpu_only();
+        machine_reboot_kexec(image); /* Does not return */
+#endif
         break;
     case KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH:
         kexec_crash(); /* Does not return */

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