Bug 209850
| Summary: | Out of tree kernel builds fail for Xen guests | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jason Baron <jbaron> |
| Component: | kernel-xen | Assignee: | Chris Lalancette <clalance> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 4.5 | CC: | clalance, ddutile, jbaron, jburke, knoel, riel, xen-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2007-0304 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-05-08 03:48:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 192025 | ||
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Description
Jason Baron
2006-10-06 22:13:40 UTC
Sorry dude, I'm on RHEL5 now. Created attachment 140014 [details]
A simple fix for the Makefile issue; basically get rid of the ln -sf that was causing the problem.
The previous patch should fix the problem; since Xen munges the Makefiles so that "vmlinuz" is put at the top-level directory as it is, there is no need to symlink it at all. This maintains behavior with the current RHEL-4 tree. Sigh. Apparently I was on crack before; it is symlinking *from* $TOPDIR/vmlinuz to arch/i386/boot/bzImage. I'm still looking at this. Created attachment 142318 [details]
Second, more complete fix for out-of-tree (really bzImage) building problem.
Created attachment 142409 [details]
Yet another fix for the out of tree problem.
Let's try this one more time; I think this patch actually fixes it. I'm
waiting on the results of Jeff Burke's testing to know for sure.
Jeff Burke's testing looked good; posted to rhkernel-list committed in stream U5 build 42.31. A test kernel with this patch is available from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ QE ack for RHEL4.5. When I try this using the -48.EL kernel source tree, I get this after doing the make bzImage step described above. I tried a ' make O=/tmp/objdir clean' and that didn't help. The error makes no sense as running a make mrproper would just undo the previous make oldconfig step. [root@dhcp58-247 linux-2.6.9]# make O=/tmp/objdir bzImage Using /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 as source for kernel /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9 is not clean, please run 'make mrproper' in the '/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9' directory. make[1]: *** [prepare1] Error 1 make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 I believe this is a limitation/feature of the build system. If you are going to build things out of tree (ala "make O=/tmp/objdir bzImage"), you *also* have to copy the .config file there, run "make O=/tmp/objdir oldconfig", and make sure that the "pristine" tree (i.e. /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9) is clean via "make mrproper". If you do these three steps, does the out of tree build work? Chris Lalancette yup, that worked. I was able to verify the bug with the -42.22 kernel and the fix with the -48 kernel. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html |