Re: [PATCH OSSTEST 0/5] Debian Jessie patches

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 09:29 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 09:43:11PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:50:33AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 19:04 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 06:56:23PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > > I worked a little bit on upgrading Osstest to Jessie a few months ago but
> > > > > dropped the ball. Here are the patches I wrote.
> > > > > 
> > > > > With these patches I can run build jobs (Xen and kernel) with Jessie. Running
> > > > > test jobs requires more work because now Jessie uses systemd a lot of things
> > > > > have changed.
> > > > 
> > > > Actually the problems I see might not be systemd related. The problem is
> > > > that Osstest cannot setup test host. Last time I didn't look into
> > > > details.
> > > 
> > > I had some issues too, to do with /boot and /boot/efi not being mounted
> > > on boot which I couldn't figure out. It was complaining that the magic
> > > dev...by-uuid event hadn't triggered despite the fact I could see the
> > > devices and mount them and they were tagged systemd in the udev db.
> > > 
> > > Eventually I gave in and went with this patch, essentially deferring the
> > > problem to Stretch...
> > > 
> > 
> > The same problem also manifests when booting DomU. However booting DomU
> > with stock Jessie kernel works fine.
> > 
> > I now think this issue might be related to the 3.14 kernel we use for
> > both Dom0 and DomU.

I was about to say: I've seen it with one or both of 3.18 and 4.1 too
(since I am using ARM and need newer).
> > 
> 
> I tracked down the issue.

Well spotted!

> 
> ---8<---
> From 756cb022b4273c75878d4b446ca19b69661ebcb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:50:55 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH OSSTEST] ts-kernel-build: enable CONFIG_FHANDLE
> Cc: ian.campbell@citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com
> 
> According to Debian bug #764539, systemd needs this kernel feature to be
> able to mount disks. Complete list of required kernel features can be
> found in /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.gz.

A useful document indeed, I somehow didn't manage to find any of these
reference despite my searching.

> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> ---
>  ts-kernel-build | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/ts-kernel-build b/ts-kernel-build
> index e7cbdc1..438be6d 100755
> --- a/ts-kernel-build
> +++ b/ts-kernel-build
> @@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ setopt CONFIG_FUSION_LOGGING n
>  
>  setopt CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA m
>  
> +setopt CONFIG_FHANDLE y
> +
>  case ${XEN_TARGET_ARCH} in
>      x86_32) setopt CONFIG_64BIT n ;;
>      x86_64)