Re: [uml-devel] skas & /proc/mm in the host kernel, yet /proc/mm 'not found'

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Jeff Dike moaned:
> nix@esperi.demon.co.uk said:
>> hppfs_open : failed to open a socket in 'proc/uptime/r', err = 1
>> Kernel panic: init_new_context_skas - new_mm failed, errno = -24 
> 
> I don't see how these can be related.  They are totally separate pieces of
> code.

It confused me, too.

Both go away completely if I turn off hppfs. (I've not tried mounting
it somewhere quiet and not using it, but I can't see how that would
be any different from simply not mounting it at all...)

>>  Hm, maybe I'm barking up a gum tree here.  Anyway, I
>> haven't seen the init_new_context_skas error since I stopped using
>> hppfs. It's still built in, just not mounted anymore.)
> 
> Hmmm, maybe there is some relationship, but I have no idea what it would be.

Without hppfs mounted, all works wonderfully. My firewall thanks you,
and it was very much easier to get my iffy ADSL router to cooperate with
the ability to reboot the UML that was talking to it in about six
seconds. (Try *that* with a non-userspace kernel. ;} )

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