[CentOS-virt] xen4centos kernel version / debuginfo

[Sarah Newman]

On 06/12/2017 03:25 PM, Kevin Stange wrote:
> On 06/12/2017 05:17 PM, Sarah Newman wrote:
>> Is there any problem moving to 4.9.31? This contains upstream commits f2e767bb5d6ee0d9 for mpt3sas and
>> 69861e0a52f87333 for dom0 memory mappings.
> 
> 4.9.31-27 is tagged for testing presently along with updated firmware.
> I have it running on one hypervisor on Xen-44 and it has been stable for
> 3 days so far.  We could probably use some more testing before tagging
> it stable.
> 
> I have been having some dom0 page allocation failures on 4.9.25... does
> 69861e0a52f87333 address that issue?  I was having trouble determining
> if it was related.

I don't know if it addresses it. I have also been having similar problems.

> 
> https://buildlogs.centos.org/centos/6/virt/x86_64/xen/
> 
>> I am also trying to build a debuginfo package but it's not correct. Specifically I'm able to get vmlinux but the .debug files for modules are
>> stripped, which isn't right. Does anyone know how to fix this?
> 
> How are you building?  CentOS builds with mock, but I'm not super
> familiar with the environment.  rpmbuild -b doesn't seem to always work
> that well.

I am building with mock.

There are currently no debuginfo packages, this is a capability I'm trying to add.

>> I'm also not sure how you're supposed to build the kernel-firmware package with the current spec file definition.
> 
> I'm also not sure about how the firmware builds work but here's the Koji
> builds from the last update:
> 
> http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=17333
> http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=17332
> 

Not from the kernel spec file, apparently, even though there's tons of references in there. I wonder why this changed.

--Sarah