[Debian] Re: Bug#403712: kernel-patch-openvz: Cannot compile kernel, undefined symbols

[Kirill Korotaev]

David,

>>Compiled and booted!! I apparently will work with "voluntary preemption" as 
>>well as "no premption". No oopses, flags. Next week I will start to play with 
>>it!
> 
> 
>>Caveat:
>>Unionfs will not compile against the patched sources (not using it yet so it 
>>can wait).
> 
> 
> Get the following harmless quip on boot:
> Dec 23 18:26:18 d_baron kernel: Testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to 
> be stuck (0->0)!
This means that on your motherboard/CPUs kernel was unable
to setup NMI watchdog. nothing bad, except for kernel won't be
able to detect it's hard deadlocks automatically in case of big problem (which should
not happen normally anyway).

> Get a series of these, also harmless on shutdown
> "Uncharging too much ...."
harmless, though would be helpfull to report exact messages.

> This is probably no longer relevant to the bug, should probably discuss 
> "privately" with Vasily?
yes. report other problems separately please for better handling.

Thanks,
Kirill