From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CkKsN-0002Ko-Q9 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:23:23 -0800 Received: from pop.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20] helo=mail.gmx.net) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CkKsJ-00060O-6M for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:23:23 -0800 From: "Armin M. Warda" Reply-To: Armin.Warda@gmx.de Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: UML fills /tmp irreversibly (2.6.9-bb4 on SuSE 9.2) References: <200412140958.58402.Armin.Warda@ePost.De> <200412301520.48951.Armin.Warda@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17272628.CnRYXJrCcs"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412311222.10579.Armin.Warda@gmx.de> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:22:05 +0100 To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Gerd Knorr , "Christopher S. Aker" --nextPart17272628.CnRYXJrCcs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 30 December 2004 17:14, Christopher S. Aker wrote: > You need to run 2.6.10,=20 That's supposed to be a 2.6.10 _Host_-Kernel? (Not 2.6.10 UM-Kernel?) > as it doesn't exhibit the tmpfs filling up=20 > problem like 2.6.9 variants do.=20 Any chance to have a 2.6.10 SuSE Kernel soon?=20 (As I use some non-GPL kernel modules - Atheros, Soft-Modem - that=20 come with the SuSE kernels but are not in kernel.org's, I would=20 prefer to stick with the SuSE-Kernel and not switch to the vanilla=20 2.6.10 kernel. But if this would be the only possibility to solve=20 this problem, I would indeed switch...) > The tmpfs problem is also =20 > compounded by the fact that UMLs without the fix-kill patch don't > exit properly, but the 2.6.9-bb4 patchset has the fix for UML. You say UM-Kernel 2.6.9-bb4 has that fix? (Yes, I am running 2.6.9-bb4=20 UM-Kernels) > For 2.4-um, you can find the fix-kill patch here: > http://www.theshore.net/~caker/uml/patches/2.4.27-1um/ > > -Chris > > On Dec 30, 2004, at 9:20 AM, Armin M. Warda wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just tried again with SuSE host kernel 2.6.8-24.10: same problem. > > > > (Is 2.6.8-24.10 a 2.6.8 with back-ported fixes from 2.6.10 ?) > > > > Armin. > > > > On Thursday 16 December 2004 20:13, Paolo Giarrusso wrote: > >> On Thursday 16 December 2004 19:36, Gerd Knorr wrote: > >>>> Well, this matches some other reports of a different problem > >>>> (impossible to unmount a fs used by UML) which probably > >>>> relates to 2.6.9 host bugs. > >>>> > >>>> I'd suggest trying to reproduce the bug with a 2.6.8.1 + > >>>> SKAS3-v7 patch, or checking what's different in the SuSE > >>>> kernel from vanilla 2.6.8.1 (I'm particularly suspiscious > >>>> about the TASK_TRACED introduction). > >>> > >>> The suse 2.6.8 kernel is actually 2.6.9-rc2, thus more close to > >>> 2.6.9 than 2.6.8. Especially it already has the TASK_TRACED > >>> stuff and I've used the 2.6.9 version of the skas v7 patch > >>> > >>> (and also thats why I've > >>> suggested to check against 2.6.9 not 2.6.8.1 vanilla to see if > >>> the issue is still there). > >> > >> Remember that there was an invisible reference from died UMLs > >> that kept the tmpfs from being unmounted (multiply reported, I > >> experienced that too). Well, it the file is kept used, then it > >> will keep using the tmpfs space. So nothing new.... > > > > -- > > --- May the Source be with you! 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