Subject: Re: [vserver] Unable to set vshelper 3.18
From: Corey Wright <undefined@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 07:49:28 -0600

On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 07:33:34 -0600
Corey Wright <undefined@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:36:33 +0100
> Oliver Welter <mail@oliwel.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bertl,
> > 
> > with the 3.18 patch I dont have a node /proc/sys/kernel/vshelper and the
> > vserver scripts complain about that.
> 
> see attached patch.

forget that patch.

that patch moved the vshelper array entry out of the CONFIG_COMPACTION
preprocessor conditional but not out of the vm_table array and into
kern_table array (to it appears under /sys/kernel and not /sys/vm).

new patch coming up (unless herbert beats me to it).

corey
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> thanks to AlexanderS on irc for his comment that tipped me off to where the
> problem was (which was probably a bit faster than grepping for vshelper).
> 
> haven't run-time tested it (been busy debugging why lxc-start mounts
> filesystems in a container on a non-vserver kernel but not on a vserver
> kernel, though root can do it without problem within the container), but it
> compiles.
> 
> corey
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> 
> > There is I good chance that I missed something during setting up the
> > test system, any ideas? If that matters - I used 3.18.5 instead of
> > 3.18.4 as base.
> > 
> > Oli
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