Hot off the press is 2.6.18-linode24.

Like all newer 2.6 kernels, this kernel has support for NPTL, so moving /lib/tls out of the way is no longer necessary.

I'll wait a while for reports to come in (good and bad) before making Latest 2.6 point to this kernel.

EDIT: Updated to 2.6.18-linode25, added CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT

-Chris

CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
CONFIG_UML=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_IRQ_RELEASE_METHOD=y
CONFIG_MODE_TT=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_HALF_GIGS=2
CONFIG_MODE_SKAS=y
CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_UML_X86=y
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
CONFIG_TOP_ADDR=0xc0000000
CONFIG_STUB_CODE=0xbfffe000
CONFIG_STUB_DATA=0xbffff000
CONFIG_STUB_START=0xbfffe000
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SC_SIGNALS=y
CONFIG_ARCH_REUSE_HOST_VSYSCALL_AREA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_STATIC=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_MCONSOLE=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_NEST_LEVEL=0
CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER=2
CONFIG_UML_REAL_TIME_CLOCK=y
CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=128
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="anticipatory"
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_STDERR_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_STDIO_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SSL=y
CONFIG_NULL_CHAN=y
CONFIG_PORT_CHAN=y
CONFIG_PTY_CHAN=y
CONFIG_TTY_CHAN=y
CONFIG_XTERM_CHAN=y
CONFIG_CON_ZERO_CHAN="fd:0,fd:1"
CONFIG_CON_CHAN="null"
CONFIG_SSL_CHAN="pty"
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_UML_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_XFRM=y
CONFIG_XFRM_USER=y
CONFIG_NET_KEY=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_ASK_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_INET_AH=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y
CONFIG_IPV6=y
CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY=y
CONFIG_INET6_AH=y
CONFIG_INET6_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET6_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET6_XFRM_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET6_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET6_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT=y
CONFIG_INET6_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_IPV6_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_NETWORK_SECMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CLASSIFY=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_MARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NFQUEUE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NOTRACK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_SECMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNSECMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_COMMENT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNBYTES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ESP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HELPER=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LENGTH=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MAC=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_POLICY=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_PHYSDEV=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_REALM=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_SCTP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATISTIC=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STRING=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CT_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IRC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_PPTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_SIP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_IPRANGE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_DSCP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_AH=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TTL=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ADDRTYPE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_HASHLIMIT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_SAME=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_IRC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_PPTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_SIP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_DSCP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TTL=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_RT=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_OPTS=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_FRAG=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_HL=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_IPV6HEADER=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_AH=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_EUI64=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_HL=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_RAW=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_BROUTE=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_T_FILTER=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_T_NAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_802_3=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_AMONG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ARP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_IP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_MARK=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_STP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_VLAN=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ARPREPLY=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_DNAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_MARK_T=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_SNAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_LOG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ULOG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y
CONFIG_LLC=y
CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CLK_JIFFIES=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HTB=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HFSC=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_RED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_SFQ=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TEQL=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TBF=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_GRED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_DSMARK=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_INGRESS=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_BASIC=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE4=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_FW=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32=y
CONFIG_CLS_U32_PERF=y
CONFIG_CLS_U32_MARK=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP6=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_STACK=32
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_CMP=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_NBYTE=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_U32=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_META=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE=y
CONFIG_NET_ESTIMATOR=y
CONFIG_UML_NET=y
CONFIG_UML_NET_TUNTAP=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_TUN=y
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
CONFIG_PPP_MPPE=y
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JFS_FS=y
CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS=y
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_XFS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_QFMT_V1=y
CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_CRAMFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V2_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="cp437"
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y
CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=y
CONFIG_KEYS=y
CONFIG_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_NULL=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD4=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_WP512=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TGR192=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLOWFISH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SERPENT=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST6=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEA=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_KHAZAD=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANUBIS=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C=y
CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=y
CONFIG_CRC16=y
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_BM=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_FSM=y
CONFIG_PLIST=y
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID456=y
CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y
CONFIG_CMDLINE_ON_HOST=y

It boots on my Debian etch node, and nothing went wrong because of the kernel. I was running 2.6.17.4-linode23 before.

Chris,

Will you consider adding CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y to this (or next) 2.6 kernel?

See my earlier feature request: http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2445


Cliff

This shows up as part of the boot process:

line_ioctl: tty0: unknown ioctl: 0x80045432

Sure.


You can ignore those.

-Chris

Its not working for me. System is slow, 'top' shows very high CPU usage, but nothing is running:

 22:15:22  up 9 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.03, 3.69, 2.25
59 processes: 56 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 100.0% user   0.0% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait   0.0% idle
Mem:   195224k av,  144012k used,   51212k free,       0k shrd,    3348k buff
        50892k active,              84844k inactive
Swap:  205816k av,       0k used,  205816k free                  106008k cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
    1 root      15   0  1464  516   460 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 events/0
    4 root      20  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 khelper
    5 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kthread
    6 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kblockd/0
   63 root      22   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 pdflush
   64 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 pdflush
   65 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kswapd0
   66 root      17  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 aio/0
   68 root      17  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 jfsIO
   69 root      17  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 jfsCommit
   70 root      17  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 jfsSync
   71 root      17  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 xfslogd/0
   72 root      17  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 xfsdatad/0
  617 root      11  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kcryptd/0
  710 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
 1511 root      15   0  2060  580   300 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 dhclient
 1561 root      18   0  1620  624   528 S     0.0  0.3   0:00   0 syslogd
 1565 root      15   0  1460  368   308 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 klogd
 1610 root      18   0  3588 1036   792 S     0.0  0.5   0:00   0 sshd
 1620 root      18   0  2108  836   712 S     0.0  0.4   0:00   0 xinetd
 1687 root      15   0  4420 1456  1132 S     0.0  0.7   0:00   0 bash
 1715 root      19   0  3032  960   800 S     0.0  0.4   0:00   0 master
 1724 postfix   19   0  3020  928   788 S     0.0  0.4   0:00   0 pickup
 1725 postfix   18   0  3064  964   808 S     0.0  0.4   0:00   0 qmgr
 1743 root      17   0  1520  564   492 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 crond
 1767 daemon    18   0  1504  352   292 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 atd
 1796 root      15   0  6656 4404  1404 S     0.0  2.2   0:00   0 miniserv.pl
 1799 root      19   0  1444  424   368 S     0.0  0.2   0:00   0 mingetty
 1813 root      18   0 11648 2560  1820 S     0.0  1.3   0:00   0 named
 1839 root      24   0  4224 1144   988 S     0.0  0.5   0:00   0 safe_mysqld
 1867 mysql     15   0 30608  13M  2520 S     0.0  6.8   0:00   0 mysqld
 1868 root      15   0  9384 4468  1664 S     0.0  2.2   0:00   0 pop-before-smtp
 1876 root      15   0  3452  828   624 S     0.0  0.4   0:00   0 dovecot

Your top is sorting by PID, not processor usage. The header says there are three processes spinning -- check for those.

-Chris

Thanks again caker for your rapid deployment of new kernels.

I have been running smoothly with this kernel for 5 days now.

gpd@www:~$ date 
Tue Oct  3 11:49:35 PDT 2006
gpd@www:~$ uptime
 11:49:37 up 5 days, 13:44,  2 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.34, 0.35
gpd@www:~$ uname -s -r -v
Linux 2.6.18-linode24 #2 Wed Sep 27 15:42:00 EDT 2006
gpd@www:~$ dstat 60
----total-cpu-usage---- -disk/total -net/total- ---paging-- ---system--
usr sys idl wai hiq siq|_read write|_recv _send|__in_ _out_|_int_ _csw_
  1   0  96   3   0   0|  14k   16k|   0     0 |  76B   50B| 115    67 
  2   0  92   6   0   0|4591B   20k| 169B 1023B|   0     0 | 115    72 

I've tried 2.6 kernels on my Debian Sarge node a few times, and it always ends up freezing up after a week or two.

Very annoying.

mv /lib/tls /lib/tls-disabled

^^ did you do that?

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Jay Faulkner
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Thanks Chris,

I've been running this kernel since Sunday with no problems:

$ uname -sr ;uptime
Linux 2.6.18-linode25
  07:27:40 up 20:47,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.15, 0.17

If anyone is interested, I ran a couple of dump(1) tests on a LVM snapshot of my /var/log partition -- once with normal activity, and a couple of times with ab2 -i -n 5000 -c 2 http://localhost/ started just before / after dump (to send lots of write requests to the target filesystem). The only thing worth mentioning is that dump and ab2 wouldn't complete their jobs concurrently (the right thing). dump (pass III and IV) waited for the running ab2; and vice versa.

Here's the output from a level 0 dump during normal low activity:

$ dump -0uf test-0.dump /dev/lvmdisk/snap.varlog
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Oct  9 07:19:35 2006
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/lvmdisk/snap.varlog (an unlisted file system) to test-0.dump
  DUMP: Label: none
  DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 25725 blocks.
  DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Mon Oct  9 07:19:36 2006
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: Closing test-0.dump
  DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Mon Oct  9 07:19:44 2006
  DUMP: Volume 1 25760 blocks (25.16MB)
  DUMP: Volume 1 took 0:00:08
  DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 3220 kB/s
  DUMP: 25760 blocks (25.16MB) on 1 volume(s)
  DUMP: finished in 8 seconds, throughput 3220 kBytes/sec
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Oct  9 07:19:35 2006
  DUMP: Date this dump completed:  Mon Oct  9 07:19:44 2006
  DUMP: Average transfer rate: 3220 kB/s
  DUMP: DUMP IS DONE

An incremental dump (> 0) will obviously run a lot quicker.

Regards,


Cliff

For what it's worth, we've encountered two BUGs with this kernel (and porentially other 2.6 kernels)...

BUG: failure at mm/rmap.c:522/page_remove_rmap()!
Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!

EIP: 0073:[<08319e3f>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:b9ffda10 EFLAGS: 00010202
    Not tainted
EAX: 08b31758 EBX: 0845306c ECX: 00000048 EDX: 08b31758
ESI: 086a4580 EDI: 00000158 EBP: b9ffda30 DS: 007b ES: 007b
8a8dfabc:  [<800519a0>] notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x40
8a8dfad8:  [<8003ef57>] panic+0x70/0x102
8a8dfaf0:  [<80076e1d>] try_to_unmap_one+0x0/0x1ea
8a8dfb04:  [<800714ab>] do_wp_page+0x138/0x39b
8a8dfb2c:  [<80072501>] __handle_mm_fault+0x1c0/0x1e6
8a8dfb60:  [<8001e703>] handle_page_fault+0x117/0x229
8a8dfba4:  [<8001e995>] segv+0x9c/0x2cb
8a8dfbc8:  [<80082c79>] sys_read+0x7e/0x80
8a8dfbf0:  [<80022bed>] handle_syscall+0x12d/0x138
8a8dfc54:  [<80033a77>] get_skas_faultinfo+0x35/0x93
8a8dfc70:  [<80033b30>] handle_segv+0x5b/0x62
8a8dfc94:  [<800341c0>] userspace+0x1f5/0x21e
8a8dfcf0:  [<80022808>] fork_handler+0xef/0xff
8a8dfd1c:  [<8039a828>] __restore+0x0/0x8
8a8dfd5c:  [<8039aa81>] kill+0x11/0x20

There's a thread about this here and it looks to be a non-uml specific 2.6.18 bug. From what I read, it's a rare bug that the kernel guys have been chasing for a while now...

The other is a kernel mode fault, with the full stack here. I suspect this is UML related, but I haven't gotten a response to my post yet.

Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel mode fault at addr 0x92c00000, ip 0x80bcead

EIP: 0073:[<080bcead>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:bf55b798 EFLAGS: 00200246
    Not tainted
EAX: ffffffda EBX: 00000003 ECX: 40118003 EDX: 000fa718
ESI: 40118003 EDI: 4021271b EBP: bf55b7d8 DS: 007b ES: 007b

-Chris

Hi,

I just signed up today. W00t! So I was kind of disappointed when I tried ot configure my Ubuntu linode to use the latest 2.6 kernel only to find that it would always kernel panic. I tried a couple of the previous 2.6 kernels, and it was the same. I had to revert to the latest 2.4 to get a proper boot.

EDIT: I appear to be on host 10.

Below is the panic error I received:

<code>
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Bridge firewalling registered
Ebtables v2.0 registered
ebt_ulog: not logging via ulog since somebody else already registered for PF_BRIDGE
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Initialized stdio console driver
Console initialized on /dev/tty0
Initializing software serial port version 1
ubda: unknown partition table
ubdb: unknown partition table
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
init: must be superuser.
Kernel panic - not syncing: save_registers - saving registers failed, errno = 3


EIP: 0073:[<4007ac30>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:bff20530 EFLAGS: 00010246
Not tainted
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 40147adc ECX: ffffffff EDX: 40147fc7
ESI: 40147fc7 EDI: 40147f80 EBP: bff20550 DS: 007b ES: 007b
80f67c54: [<800519a0>] notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x40
80f67c70: [<8003ef57>] panic+0x70/0x102
80f67c88: [<800340cb>] userspace+0x100/0x21e
80f67cc8: [<80019196>] init+0x0/0x16e
80f67cd8: [<80019196>] init+0x0/0x16e
80f67ce4: [<800226c1>] new_thread_handler+0xed/0x11c
80f67d20: [<8039a828>] __restore+0x0/0x8
80f67d60: [<8039aa81>] kill+0x11/0x20

</code>

Yes, we're aware of this issue. Three hosts, including yours, need to have their host kernel upgraded. I'm planning the reboot schedule and will announce it tomorrow -- it'll most likely happen this weekend.

Thanks,
-Chris