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: did the patch contain fremap code (the one for 2.6.18-rc4 did)? That code does do heavy changes to page fault handling. I'm also guessing this is a 32bit host. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com
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