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: did the patch contain fremap code (the one for > 2.6.18-rc4 did)? That code does do heavy changes to page fault handling.
No, it was not the fremap version. > I'm also guessing this is a 32bit host. Correct. -Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
