Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel panic while compiling kernel

[Zachary Amsden <zamsden@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser wrote:

> > xen/include/asm-i386/apic.h for one... and there are more dangerous 
> > looking things:
> > xen/include/asm-i386/dma.h includes both "linux/config.h" and 
> > "linux/spinklock.h".  This is very likely to be built into the drivers, 
> > and likely to cause major havoc if you change the cacheline size.
> > Only arch/i386/Rules.mk specifies -nostdinc.  This is really dangerous 
> > if you are not building on a 2.4.24 or very close kernel, and makes 
> > cross-compiling out of the question.
> > I should have a patch for a slightly cleaner build today that you could 
> > try out.  It's likely to be largish, since I may need to pull in some 
> > additional headers from 2.4.24.
> >    
> I'm not sure that I understand what you are trying to do. 
> #include <linux/foo.h> and #include <xeno/foo.h> should mean the same
> thing when building Xen -- all kernel object files should be built
> with -nostdinc, and incude/linux is a symlink to include/xeno.
>
> When building Linux for Xen, it does not use any Xen headers except
> those in include/hypervisor-ifs -- all other headers are private to
> Xen!
>  
I'm not talking about Linux -- I'm talking about Xen itself.  Xen 
depends on the local system includes, which is not good.  Xen is 
definitely not built with -nostdinc, which is what I am trying to fix.
Zachary Amsden
zamsden@xxxxxxxxx


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