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Dan Magenheimer

2009-Jun-23 23:06 UTC

[Xen-devel] upstream xen-ified kernel building challenge

A fun challenge for those of you who eat raw upstream kernels
for lunch:

1) Untar an upstream (say 2.6.30) kernel.org kernel
2) From the bash command line ONLY, execute one or more
   commands to configure the kernel so "make" will build
   a fully xen-ified kernel.  (Everything else can
   use the defconfig default.)

For extra credit:
3) Determine the shortest sequence of commands to do
   the above.

After many tries, I have not been able to do (2) at all.
I always have to fall back to an existing .config file
that was created using menuconfig.  (I *suspect* this is
because PARAVIRT_GUEST is defined in Kconfig using a
menuconfig line rather than a config line, but am unsure.)

Dan

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Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]

2009-Jun-24 10:04 UTC

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Re: [Xen-devel] upstream xen-ified kernel building challenge

Hello Dan,

it could look like this:

cat > .config << "EOF"
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST=y
CONFIG_XEN=y
CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FOPS=y
CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO=y
CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y
EOF
yes '''' | make oldconfig

(the options could be shortened with a for loop but it would make it
unreadable...)

I think the oldconfig run will get and set your arch and shift options
if needed for x86_64 but i haven''t testet that but it should work on
32bit PAE systems...

have fun,

Marc

Am Dienstag, den 23.06.2009, 16:06 -0700 schrieb Dan
Magenheimer:> A fun challenge for those of you who eat raw upstream kernels
> for lunch:
> 
> 1) Untar an upstream (say 2.6.30) kernel.org kernel
> 2) From the bash command line ONLY, execute one or more
>    commands to configure the kernel so "make" will build
>    a fully xen-ified kernel.  (Everything else can
>    use the defconfig default.)
> 
> For extra credit:
> 3) Determine the shortest sequence of commands to do
>    the above.
> 
> After many tries, I have not been able to do (2) at all.
> I always have to fall back to an existing .config file
> that was created using menuconfig.  (I *suspect* this is
> because PARAVIRT_GUEST is defined in Kconfig using a
> menuconfig line rather than a config line, but am unsure.)
> 
> Dan
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-devel mailing list
> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

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Dan Magenheimer

2009-Jun-24 16:49 UTC

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RE: [Xen-devel] upstream xen-ified kernel building challenge

Thanks Marc!  It looks like the magic key I was missing is
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.  The following works for a 32-bit 2.6.30
kernel.  It misses the frame buffer drivers and paravirtualized
spinlocks but results in a kernel runnable on Xen.

cat > .config << "EOF"
CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST=y
CONFIG_XEN=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
EOF
yes '''' | make oldconfig
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]
> [mailto:mad@wol.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:04 AM
> To: Dan Magenheimer
> Cc: Xen-devel
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] upstream xen-ified kernel building challenge
> 
> 
> Hello Dan,
> 
> it could look like this:
> 
> cat > .config << "EOF"
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST=y
> CONFIG_XEN=y
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y
> CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
> CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
> CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
> CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
> CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=y
> CONFIG_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y
> CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT=y
> CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA=y
> CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT=y
> CONFIG_FB_SYS_FOPS=y
> CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO=y
> CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y
> EOF
> yes '''' | make oldconfig
> 
> (the options could be shortened with a for loop but it would make it
> unreadable...)
> 
> I think the oldconfig run will get and set your arch and shift options
> if needed for x86_64 but i haven''t testet that but it should work
on
> 32bit PAE systems...
> 
> have fun,
> 
> Marc
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 23.06.2009, 16:06 -0700 schrieb Dan Magenheimer:
> > A fun challenge for those of you who eat raw upstream kernels
> > for lunch:
> > 
> > 1) Untar an upstream (say 2.6.30) kernel.org kernel
> > 2) From the bash command line ONLY, execute one or more
> >    commands to configure the kernel so "make" will build
> >    a fully xen-ified kernel.  (Everything else can
> >    use the defconfig default.)
> > 
> > For extra credit:
> > 3) Determine the shortest sequence of commands to do
> >    the above.
> > 
> > After many tries, I have not been able to do (2) at all.
> > I always have to fall back to an existing .config file
> > that was created using menuconfig.  (I *suspect* this is
> > because PARAVIRT_GUEST is defined in Kconfig using a
> > menuconfig line rather than a config line, but am unsure.)
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Xen-devel mailing list
> > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> 
>
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Dan Magenheimer

2009-Jun-24 21:23 UTC

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RE: [Xen-devel] upstream xen-ified kernel building challenge

*Sigh*  Though this kernel is runnable on Xen, it
crashes early with a bad system call.  So the
default (2.6.30 32-bit) kernel build, with Xen configs
added, doesn''t boot.

(I have a config that works, its just frustrating
as I''d really like to find the magic key! And the
diffs between the working version and the "min"
version (below) are too extensive!)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Magenheimer 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:50 AM
> To: Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]
> Cc: Xen-devel
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] upstream xen-ified kernel building challenge
> 
> 
> Thanks Marc!  It looks like the magic key I was missing is
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.  The following works for a 32-bit 2.6.30
> kernel.  It misses the frame buffer drivers and paravirtualized
> spinlocks but results in a kernel runnable on Xen.
> 
> cat > .config << "EOF"
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST=y
> CONFIG_XEN=y
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
> EOF
> yes '''' | make oldconfig
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]
> > [mailto:mad@wol.de]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:04 AM
> > To: Dan Magenheimer
> > Cc: Xen-devel
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] upstream xen-ified kernel building 
> challenge
> > 
> > 
> > Hello Dan,
> > 
> > it could look like this:
> > 
> > cat > .config << "EOF"
> > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST=y
> > CONFIG_XEN=y
> > CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y
> > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=y
> > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y
> > CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
> > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
> > CONFIG_X86_PAE=y
> > CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
> > CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
> > CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=y
> > CONFIG_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=y
> > CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT=y
> > CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA=y
> > CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT=y
> > CONFIG_FB_SYS_FOPS=y
> > CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO=y
> > CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y
> > EOF
> > yes '''' | make oldconfig
> > 
> > (the options could be shortened with a for loop but it would make it
> > unreadable...)
> > 
> > I think the oldconfig run will get and set your arch and 
> shift options
> > if needed for x86_64 but i haven''t testet that but it should
work on
> > 32bit PAE systems...
> > 
> > have fun,
> > 
> > Marc
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, den 23.06.2009, 16:06 -0700 schrieb Dan Magenheimer:
> > > A fun challenge for those of you who eat raw upstream kernels
> > > for lunch:
> > > 
> > > 1) Untar an upstream (say 2.6.30) kernel.org kernel
> > > 2) From the bash command line ONLY, execute one or more
> > >    commands to configure the kernel so "make" will
build
> > >    a fully xen-ified kernel.  (Everything else can
> > >    use the defconfig default.)
> > > 
> > > For extra credit:
> > > 3) Determine the shortest sequence of commands to do
> > >    the above.
> > > 
> > > After many tries, I have not been able to do (2) at all.
> > > I always have to fall back to an existing .config file
> > > that was created using menuconfig.  (I *suspect* this is
> > > because PARAVIRT_GUEST is defined in Kconfig using a
> > > menuconfig line rather than a config line, but am unsure.)
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Xen-devel mailing list
> > > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> > > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> > 
> >
> 
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