On 18.10.2008, at 12:51, Avi Kivity wrote:

Alexander Graf wrote:

So if I don't select kvm in the kernel (either as module or compiled in) I can't build an external module providing kvm's functionality? That doesn't seem really useful to me...


The external module hackball should detect that you don't have CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIERS set and supply some compatibility glue. What error are you seeing?

Basically struct mmu_notifier is not found, but requested by the code:

rm -f include/asm include-compat/asm
ln -sf asm-x86 include/asm
ln -sf asm-x86 include-compat/asm
make -C /usr/src/linux-obj/i586/default M=`pwd` \
                LINUXINCLUDE="-I`pwd`/include -Iinclude \
                -Iinclude2 -I/lib/modules/2.6.27.1-2-default/source/include \
                -Iarch/x86/include -I`pwd`/include-compat \
                -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
                -include `pwd`/x86/external-module-compat.h "
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.1-2-obj/i386/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.27.1-2 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.1-2-obj/i386/ default/. LD /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kvm-77/suse-kernel/default/x86/ built-in.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kvm-77/suse-kernel/default/x86/svm.o
In file included from /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kvm-77/suse-kernel/ default/x86/svm.c:16: /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kvm-77/suse-kernel/default/include/linux/ kvm_host.h:128: error: field 'mmu_notifier' has incomplete type make[5]: *** [/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kvm-77/suse-kernel/default/x86/ svm.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kvm-77/suse-kernel/default/x86] Error 2 make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kvm-77/suse-kernel/ default] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.1-2-obj/i386/default'
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.20019 (%build)

When I remove the struct references it breaks later on due to missing(?) inline functions.

Alex
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