linux-xen for x86_64

[Bart Verwilst]

Binary package hint: linux-xen

I'm currently installing my new colocated server, with Gutsy and xen.. I've used the 2.6.18 directly from xensource, but i find that my ext3 partitions are getting more corrupt by the minute :)
I've noticed a linux-xen, linux-image-xen, ... in gutsy, but only for i386.. Could it be possible to compile this for amd64 as well?
Thanks a lot!

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

I have the fix in my git tree will be pushed soonish.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Gutsy commit 99b3465fe77281eeb12073e362cb4c7fc332095a and 3e2bfb423cb9cb16a89757909c2f3a41b3c4a5b9

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

linux-source-2.6.22 (2.6.22-11.32) gutsy; urgency=low

  [Amit Kucheria]

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  * Fix soft-fp underflow handling.
  * Netfilter: Missing Kbuild entry for netfil...

[Matt Brown (mattbrown)]

Hi,

This package has built, but still doesn't seem to provide linux-image-xen for amd64/x86_64. Are you sure that it fixes this bug?

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9160196/linux-source-2.6.22_2.6.22-11.32_amd64.changes

^^ no linux-image-xen in the new changes file.

[Steven Wagner (stevenwagner)]

I can 2nd what matt is saying.

[Matt Brown (mattbrown)]

Setting back to confirmed to ensure this doesn't slip off the radar unnoticed.

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

Confirmed as well here. This is a little anoying :-P

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

I added "xen" to "debian/rules.d/amd64.mk" to the "extra_flavours" and tried to build the deb package but the Xen build for AMD64 fails with:

In file included from /home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:36:
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.h:237: error: field 'card_tasklet' has incomplete type
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.h:238: error: field 'finish_tasklet' has incomplete type
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c: In function 'sdhci_finish_data':
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:556: warning: implicit declaration of function 'tasklet_schedule'
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c: In function 'sdhci_send_command':
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:627: warning: format '%08X' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c: At top level:
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1174: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'sdhci_irq'
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c: In function 'sdhci_suspend':
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1281: warning: implicit declaration of function 'free_irq'
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1267: warning: unused variable 'ret'
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c: In function 'sdhci_resume':
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1312: warning: implicit declaration of function 'request_irq'
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1312: error: 'sdhci_irq' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1312: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1312: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1313: error: 'IRQF_SHARED' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c: In function 'sdhci_probe_slot':
/home/zbowling/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/debian/build/custom-source-xen/drivers/mmc/mss/mss_sdhci.c:1547: warning: implicit declaration of function 'tasklet_init'
/home/zbowling/l...

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

The mmc stuff I belive is an ubuntu addon if I'm not mistaken, that is not in the vanilla (linus's tree) version of the kernel.

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

Looking at debian/binary-custom.d/xen/patch.001 there is a lot of work to be done to support X86_64 Xen against the gusty kernel. The entire patch being applied only applies to "arch/i386" and nothing even touches the "arch/x86_64" tree.

This needs to be upgraded in severity.

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

I'm running my home-compiled linux-image-2.6.22-11-xen_2.6.22-11.33_amd64.deb on amd64 just fine.. I'm using the git tree from git://kernel.ubuntu.com/zul/ubuntu-gutsy.git . I'm not sure how the merging/syncing with the normal tree goes, but Chuck said it would hit the repo's in a short while ( for amd64 that is ).

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

I seen the various git left overs in the deb but didn't know where it was.
THANKS!

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

This probably should make it into soon so it can have some time to before gusty releases to be tested.

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

I got an image going to make this work.

Depends on the other python bug getting fixed in xenman as well. If I patch both I can get it to boot. The restricted modules don't pull over, but there is not a lot in there that I'm worried about.

I can't find anything wrong with anything. What is holding up it getting uploaded?

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

Other python bug? patches? I didn't have to patch anything to get it to build, but i presume you're using the ubuntu/ubuntu-gutsy.git?
And i agree, getting this out there while Gutsy is still in beta would be A Good Thing(tm) for the stability of things :) But at #ubuntu-kernel they said the amd64 xen kernel should be included in the next release next week.. Let's hope for the best ;)

[Zac Bowling (zac)]

I stuck new debs at http://polystimulus.com/ubuntu/ if anyone is interested.

[Bart Verwilst (verwilst)]

It arrived!

ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/linux-source-2.6.22

See, a nice and shiny amd64 deb! ;)

Thanks a lot for all the hard work @ devs, now let's test this puppy!

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Closing

[Todd Deshane (deshantm)]

FYI: the linux-xen metapackage is still missing as of this comment.

[Todd Deshane (deshantm)]

This was fixed last week.