[Debian] Re: OpenVZ and the kernel package

dann frazier dannf at dannf.org
Tue Jan 13 20:20:39 EST 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:05:39PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:05:53PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > Hi Moritz
> > 
> > I have started to look though the problem reports and would like to
> > report and also ask you some questions:
> > 
> > #510787:
> >  Refers to an other bug report that was not openvz specific. Should it be
> >  forwarded to an non-openvz version of the kernel or kept here?
> >  In any case I have added latest information to the report and told where
> >  the problem has been forwarded.
> >  Also it is considered grave. I'm not sure about that status. It is just
> >  some special usb dongle function that make the kernel crash. My opinion is
> >  that such problems are important, not grave. Do you agree?
> > 
> > #511165:
> >  Patch exist for 2.6.24 and 2.6.26. Fix is available in
> >  http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=b5e1f74cee5bc2c45bdca53a7218fb8de89215dd
> >  Not sure if this is an ABI breaker.
> > 
> > #500876:
> >  Fix available in:
> >  http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=777e8164ebf8a03e43511983cdec472f8691a8af
> >  Looks like an ABI breaker, but I do not know the kernel source good enough
> >  to tell really.
> > 
> > #503097:
> >  Reported as http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=930
> >  No solution yet.
> > 
> > #505174:
> >  This is a request to go up to the latest version that includes fixes for
> >  all the ones in this mail that describe that there is a fix available.
> >  Unfortunatly there are ABI breakers...
> > 
> > #508773:
> >  Patch available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1054
> >  Not committed to openvz git yet.
> >  Do not look like an ABI breaker to me.
> > 
> > #500145:
> >  I have just reported it upstream. No solution to this problem yet.
> >  http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143
> > 
> > #501985:
> >  From: maximilian attems <max at stro.at>
> >  the upstream nfs fixes are abi breakers and thus can't be integrated
> >  at this point they will be for the first point release were abi
> >  breaking will be allowed again.
> > 
> > #494445:
> >  There are a number of problems in this area. Fixes are available.
> >  However some of them are ABI breakers.
> > 
> > #500645:
> >  Fix available in http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034
> >  http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.26-openvz;a=commit;h=6d18ba377cfa3e86ee830fe6a5fce52b8fd51039
> >  I can not see that this is an ABI breaker, so it should be possibly to
> >  apply this one without problem.
> 
> Thanks Ola, this is much appreciated! I'm adding Dann Frazier who's
> being prepping the recent kernel stable updates to see when a point
> update with an ABI bump is planned. There seem to have quite some
> openvz patches accumulated so which break the ABI.

Maybe we should start a branch to queue up ABI-breakers. There's at
least one other one (hppa fix to load larger modules such as xfs).

-- 
dann frazier



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