[uml-devel] Re: UML patches against vanilla 2.6.0

[Jason L. <lu...@fa...>]

bla...@ya... said:
> I have some doubts about the 2.6 host-skas patch. I've searched through the 
> list for earlier ports to 2.6 and I've seen someone (Bryan O'Sullivan 
> <bo...@se...>) complaining:
>
> "The big issue with the skas patches, though, appears to be that they
> don't handle the UML kernel being killed, which results in the host
> kernel's memory management being completely trashed."
>
> Is this a real issue or not?

I think so. I'm running 2.6.0 vanilla + Ingo's combo -A2 on my host,
with 2.4.23 UMLs. I tried to do something in the uml involving lots of
tmpfs usage, and the host system crashed.

This was just before I went away for the holiday; I'm only now catching
up. I haven't re-tested with any of the newer 2.6 skas patches.

Jason