Hi,
I've been stumbling to same problems building kernel packages for our distro -
I've made small patches which allow enabling MMU notifier and also preempt
notifiers
on kernel with KVM disabled (to allow building external always fresh KVM).
I'm attaching those, hope it helps.
Actually, Avi, do You thing souch patches could be pushed upstream? It doesn't
hurt anything to have such a choice no?
If so, I can send git style patches ;)
regards
nik
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 02:17:27AM +0800, Sheng Yang wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:47:39PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >
> > On 17.10.2008, at 19:25, Sheng Yang wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:34:35PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm currently experiencing build failures when CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIERS
> >>> is
> >>> not set. Is this intended? If so, it might be nice to put a
> >>> configure-
> >>> check or #error somewhere to tell the user that enabling mmu
> >>> notifiers
> >>> became mandatory.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I think it's intended. In fact, it was selected by KVM
> >> , so if you compile a kernel with KVM, I think it would work...
> >
> > Well - it makes it pretty hard to build KVM as an external module (which
> > I prefer due to many reasons) and I've actually had a problem to find the
> > option in make menuconfig somewhere - is it even selectable?
>
> CONFIG_MMU_NOITFIER? No... It's automatically selected, if you select KVM,
> either in-kernel or module. Please refer to arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig.
> --
> regards
> Yang, Sheng
> >
> > Alex
> >
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diff -Naur linux-2.6.25/init/Kconfig
linux-2.6.25-enable-preempt-notifiers/init/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.25/init/Kconfig 2008-06-10 02:51:26.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.25-enable-preempt-notifiers/init/Kconfig 2008-06-10
03:09:18.000000000 -0400
@@ -800,6 +800,11 @@
/proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
+config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
+ bool "Enable preempt notifiers"
+ help
+ Enable preempt notifiers
+
endmenu # General setup
config SLABINFO
@@ -913,9 +918,6 @@
source "block/Kconfig"
-config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
- bool
-
config CLASSIC_RCU
def_bool !PREEMPT_RCU
help
diff -Naur linux-2.6.27/mm/Kconfig linux-2.6.27-enable-mmu-notifier/mm/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.27/mm/Kconfig 2008-10-10 00:13:53.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.27-enable-mmu-notifier/mm/Kconfig 2008-10-12 15:10:21.000000000
+0200
@@ -207,4 +207,7 @@
depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
config MMU_NOTIFIER
- bool
+ bool "Enable MMU notifier"
+ help
+ Enable MMU notifier
+
