Re: mutex fault and no symbol table on recent Dom0 and Xen

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:23:06PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:29:45AM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > 
> > > Good news: The symbol table is back again. The fix is upstream
> > > in xen-unstable. The elf code in Xen got reworked between Xen 3.0.4
> > > and Xen 3.1. During that rework, elf symbol loading got broken in the
> > way
> > > that BSD_SYMTAB got still parsed, but not handled.
> > > This is handled in xen-unstable again.
> > 
> > this is great, thanks ! Do you know if this can easily be applied to
> > the stable branch ?
> 
> I think so. Just take the changesets 15672, 15678 and 15679.
> These changesets touches files that haven't been changed
> otherwise since Xen 3.1.
> 
> 
> 
> The following links show you the changelog and the diffs.
> 
> 15672:
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg/rev/88bb0d305308
> 
> 15678:
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg/rev/78be123257fa
> 
> 15679:
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg/rev/7ee30cf72fd3
> 
> 15672 is my original patch a little modified by XenSource.
> 15678 fixed a bug introduced via modifications from XenSource.
> 15679 is a cleanup by XenSource and tested by me on both Dom0 and DomU.
> 
> All three changesets merged together results in a relativ
> small patch.

Thanks ! I've been able to apply it to Xen 3.1.0. I updated the xenkernel3
to build the kernel from source, with this patch.

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