Re: Possible netns creation and execution performance/scalability regression since v3.8 due to rcu callbacks being offloaded to multiple cpus

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Jun 11 2014 - 21:10:40 EST


Rafael Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm getting a kernel panic with your patch:
>
> -- panic
> -- mount_block_root
> -- mount_root
> -- prepare_namespace
> -- kernel_init_freeable
>
> It is giving me an unknown block device for the same config file i
> used on other builds. Since my test is running on a kvm guest under a
> ramdisk, i'm still checking if there are any differences between this
> build and other ones but I think there aren't.
>
> Any chances that "prepare_namespace" might be breaking mount_root ?

My patch boots for me....

Eric
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