Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] XEN-4.3.0 tools-bugs [FLASK] [SEABIOS]

["Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <mva@xxxxxxxx>]

29.07.2013 13:48, Ian Campbell ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 18:21 +0400, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
>> Hi! I've found few bugs in Xen-4.3.0:
> 
> Thanks. For future reference it would be really useful to send these as
> individual mails.
> 
> We also discourage cross-posting. I've moved the thread to -devel.
> 
>> FLASK part:
>>
>> 1) first of all, I'm discouraged, that flask policy builds without
>> FLASK_ENABLE=y. I guess, it is because I've SELinux in dom0, but,
>> anyway, since I've not enabled FLASK myself, I suggest that it will not
>> be build.
> 
> Building the policy seems harmless even if FLASK is not enabled? If
> nothing else it gets us better build testing coverage

To be honest, not that it is harmless to build policy. Just I think, it
is unneded, if FLASK is disabled. And, anyway, main issue is that it
installs as "/boot"

>> 2) Moreover, that flask policy builds despite of I don't enabled flask,
>> somewhy it installs as "/boot" due to
>>> POLICY_LOADPATH = $(DESTDIR)/boot
>> (I checked it by changing value to boot3, and that policy was renamed too)
>>
>> I guess, nobody get that issue due to less of people build xen/xen-tools
>> in sandbox, while Gentoo, for example, have both build and install in
>> sandboxed environment (so, there is no system /boot dir), and policy get
>> "/boot" name.
> 
> Yes, it seems that the install rule should gain an "$(INSTALL_DIR)
> $(DESTDIR)$(POLICY_LOADPATH)" at the start. COuld you send such a patch
> please. See http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches for guidance
> if you need it.

Ok, just sent patches.


> 
>>
>>
>> bundled SeaBIOS part:
>>
>> 3)
>>
>> make -C seabios-dir all
>>   Working around non-functional -fwhole-program
>> make[5]: Entering directory
>> `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.0/work/xen-4.3.0/tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote'
>> make[6]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent
>> make rule.
>>   Build default config
>> #
>> # configuration written to
>> /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.0/work/xen-4.3.0/tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote/.config
>> #
>> make[5]: Leaving directory
>> `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.0/work/xen-4.3.0/tools/firmware/seabios-dir-remote'
>>   Working around non-functional -fwhole-program
>>   Compiling IASL out/acpi-dsdt.hex
>> make[6]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent
>> make rule.
>>   Compiling IASL out/ssdt-proc.hex
>>   Build Kconfig config file
>>
>>
>> That jobserver issues makes buildsystem continue build process  at
>> installation phase.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that this issue means some
> stuff doesn't get built at "make build" time but only gets built at
> "make install" time? That would be very strange. I'm not sure it would
> necessarily be related to this jobserver thing.

Yes, I mean that some qemu related part builds at 'make install' time,
and I guess, it is due to that jobserver thing.

>> 4) if user tries to build xen-tools with UTF-8 locale,
> 
> Which locale specifically? What is your $LANG?
> 

ru_RU.UTF-8, but as mentioned in bug on Gentoo bugzilla, all the same on
italian UTF-8 locale.

>>  he gets:
>>
>> Version: rel-1.7.1-3-g3a28511-20130727_172824-node1
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 630, in <module>
>>     main()
>>   File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 607, in main
>>     info16 = parseObjDump(infile16, '16')
>>   File "./tools/layoutrom.py", line 538, in parseObjDump
>>     relocsection = sectionmap[sectionname]
>> KeyError: '.text.asm.out/../src/smp.c.77'
>>
>> (there is some more info: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445986 )
> 
> This looks like a SeaBIOS issue. Have you checked the upstream SeaBIOS
> tree for a fix?

Does it counts, that system-wide seabios package (1.7.2.1 and 1.7.2.2
versions), builds and installs fine?

> The right way to go about fixing this would probably be
> to report upstream, can you do that? (please feel free to CC me and
> xen-devel).

Sure, I can, but I doubt, it give some result, since system-wide seabois
(from code.coreboot.org) installs just fine.

> That patch is probably to use LANG=C at various points in
> the SeaBIOS makefile.

Actually, it is already temporary workaround, but I doubt it is good
idea to do such things widely, so I think, it needs real fix of issue,
instead of hining it by locale change.

--

Best regards,
mva

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