Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/9] ARM: Xen: fix initial build problems:

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 20:24 +0100, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > From: Ian Campbell [mailto:Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 9:36 AM
> > To: Arnd Bergmann
> > Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Stefano Stabellini; 
> > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk;
> > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Russell King; 
> > linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/9] ARM: Xen: fix initial build problems:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 16:22 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > * The XEN_BALLOON code requires the balloon infrastructure that is not
> > >   getting built on ARM.
> > 
> > I've got patches to enable this, but not for 3.7 so this looks good for
> > now.
> > 
> > > * The tmem hypercall is not available on ARM
> 
> [reduced cc list to just us Xen chickens]
> 
> Any reason that the tmem hypercall is not available on ARM?
> At a minimum, it should be available, but always return failure.

The hypercall is available from a hypervisor point of view, although it
will return -Esomething since some of the required arch functions are
still stubs.

The issue Arnd is fixing is that the client code in the kernel doesn't
currently compile because we haven't added all the required per-arch
scaffolding yet. Or at least that is the case for ballooning, I haven't
tried building tmem myself but I assume Arnd wouldn't be sending the
patch if it built.

I posted a series to enable ballooning on ARM last week (see
<1349363496.866.49.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>).

Ian.




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