From: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] 2.6.18-skas-v9-pre9 broken
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:36:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <458AAA0D.4020507@theshore.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610210305.37629.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 23:59, Christopher S. Aker wrote:
>> Blaisorblade,
>>
>> I recently deployed a 2.6.18-skas3-v9-pre9 host, and some users weren't
>> able to boot UML beyond "VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly".
>> As it turns out, only 2.6-um kernels were affected, 2.4-um worked fine.
>>
>> This happened both in skas3 and skas0 modes. Jeff graciously took a
>> look at some straces, and his comment was that "something broke page
>> fault handling generically".
>>
>> The traces are here:
>>
>> http://www.theshore.net/~caker/uml/skas2.6.18-uml_trace.txt (skas3)
>> http://www.theshore.net/~caker/uml/skas2.6.18-uml_trace_skas0.txt
>>
>> Reverting back to a skas3-v8.2 kernel fixed it.
>
> An important question: you reverted to a 2.6.18 + skas kernel or a 2.6.17 one?
> A similar bug is being discussed about a regression in 2.6.18 vanilla...
Uh, somehow I missed this email for two months...
All my hosts are running at most 2.6.16.x, so this very well could be a
regression in post 2.6.16 kernels.
-Chris
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 21:59 [uml-devel] 2.6.18-skas-v9-pre9 broken Christopher S. Aker
2006-10-06 21:54 ` Blaisorblade
2006-10-06 23:57 ` Christopher S. Aker
2006-10-21 1:05 ` Blaisorblade
2006-12-21 15:36 ` Christopher S. Aker [this message]
2006-12-26 5:39 ` Christopher S. Aker
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