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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 2/3] x86: Remap GDT tables in the Fixmap section



On 03/09/2017 05:31 PM, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Boris Ostrovsky
> <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I don't have any experience with Xen so it would be great if virtme can 
>>>> test it.
>>> I am pretty sure I tested this series at some point but I'll test it again.
>>>
>>
>> Fails 32-bit build:
>>
>>
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c: In function ‘segment_base’:
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:2054: error: ‘host_gdt’
>> undeclared (first use in this function)
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:2054: error: (Each undeclared
>> identifier is reported only once
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:2054: error: for each
>> function it appears in.)
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:2054: error: type defaults to
>> ‘int’ in declaration of ‘type name’
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:2054: error: type defaults to
>> ‘int’ in declaration of ‘type name’
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:2054: warning: initialization
>> from incompatible pointer type
>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:2054: warning: unused
>> variable ‘gdt’
>>
>>
>> -boris
> It seems that I forgot to remove line 2054 on the rebase. My 32-bit
> build comes clean but I assume it is not good enough compare to the
> full version I build for 64-bit KVM testing.
>
> Remove just this line and it should build fine, I will fix this on the
> next iteration.
>
> Thanks for testing,
>


So this, in fact, does break Xen in that the hypercall to set GDT fails.

I will have lo look at this tomorrow but I definitely at least built
with v3 of this series. And I don't see why I wouldn't have tested it
once I built it.

-boris

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