RE: [PATCH] Account for Fedora kernels with backported vzalloc

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jan Kiszka [mailto:jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:27 PM
> To: Kohl, Bernhard (NSN - DE/Munich)
> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Account for Fedora kernels with backported
vzalloc
> 
> On 2011-05-17 16:55, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
> > kvm-kmod-2.6.38.6 does not compile on Fedora kernels >= 2.6.35.11.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kohl <bernhard.kohl@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  configure                     |    8 ++++++++
> >  external-module-compat-comm.h |    5 ++++-
> >  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/configure b/configure
> > index a40c39f..b91587c 100755
> > --- a/configure
> > +++ b/configure
> > @@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ if [ -n "$no_uname" -a "$want_module" ]; then
> >  	depmod_version=$kernel_version
> >  fi
> >
> > +# Check if it is a Fedora kernel, e.g. 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
> > +if echo "$kernel_version" | grep -qE '[0-9.-]+\.fc[0-9]+\..+'; then
> > +    config_fedora_kernel="#define CONFIG_FEDORA_KERNEL 1"
> > +else
> > +    config_fedora_kernel="#undef CONFIG_FEDORA_KERNEL"
> > +fi
> > +
> 
> Is there no define set by fedora kernels themselves?

No, there is nothing in the include/generated/autoconf.h
to identify a Fedora kernel. I assume this is the place
where CONFIG_SUSE_KERNEL comes from.

> 
> >  rm -f include/asm include-compat/asm
> >  mkdir -p include
> >  ln -sf asm-"$karch" include/asm
> > @@ -175,4 +182,5 @@ EOF
> >
> >  cat <<EOF > kvm-kmod-config.h
> >  #define KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION $kernel_extraversion
> > +$config_fedora_kernel
> >  EOF
> > diff --git a/external-module-compat-comm.h b/external-module-compat-
> comm.h
> > index 6b6bddb..b7d9b25 100644
> > --- a/external-module-compat-comm.h
> > +++ b/external-module-compat-comm.h
> > @@ -881,7 +881,10 @@ static inline u32 hash_32(u32 val, unsigned int
> bits)
> >  #define __rcu
> >  #endif
> >
> > -#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,37)
> > +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,37) && \
> > +    (!defined(CONFIG_FEDORA_KERNEL) || \
> > +     LINUX_VERSION_CODE == KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,35) &&
> KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION < 11 || \
> > +     LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,35))
> >  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> >  static inline void *vzalloc(unsigned long size)
> >  {
> 
> Is this intentionally or accidentally targeting Fedora 2.6.35.x only?
> Because the commit log may imply some 2.6.36-fc could carry it as well
> (if they exist).

I assume Fedora 14 will stay with kernel 2.6.35 and Fedora 15 starts
with kernel 2.6.38 where the problem does not exist anyway.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jan
> 
> --
> Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1
> Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
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