Re: [Xen-devel] 2.6.30 dom0 Xen patches

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:53:09AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> 01.07.09 19:15 >>>
> >I have rebased the xen-patches from opensuse
> >kernel-source-2.6.30-50.1.src.rpm so that they can be applied to
> >vanilla 2.6.30, the usual patches tarball and gentoo ebuild are
> >available at http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list 
> >, if you are not using Gentoo simply apply the patches in numeric
> >order.
> >
> >Some notes:
> >
> >both dom0 and domU require CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y and CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
> >64 bit dom0/domU requires CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y
> 
> May I ask why you found the first and third ones to be necessary? Unless
> it's because of the conditional in the loop right after the commen "Zap
> stats across IRQ changes of use." in unbind_from_irq(), which I fixed a
> few days ago, but didn't push out to our internal repo so far. (The fix
> is to change the dependency from CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ to
> CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS in the 2.6.30 patch.)
> 
> The second one seems less meaningful, as I wouldn't think anyone would
> build a general use (Xen) kernel with EMBEDDED=y, and HOTPLUG is not
> user selectable without EMBEDDED.
> 
> May I also ask for you to let us know about fixes to the patches that you
> find necessary which aren't just due to you applying them to plain 2.6.30?
> 

Hello Jan,

I assume Novell did a lot of testing/patching/bugfixing for SLES11 2.6.27
Xen kernel. Do these OpenSUSE Xen patches contain the fixes from SLES11? 

-- Pasi

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