[lxc-devel] running LXC test cases in mainline kernels

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Andrew McDermott (andrew.mcdermott at linaro.org):
> 
> I am testing and benchmarking various container technologies (LXC,
> Docker) on an X-Gene (Applied Micro, ARMv8) system. 
> 
> Using the default ubuntu kernel from vivid (3.19.0-18-generic) I can
> successfully run all the LXC tests.
> 
> As part of my testing I'm also trying mainline kernels (4.1-rc6),
> largely for KVM hotplug support. Out of completeness I tried running the
> LXC tests on this version and get some failures:
> 
>     lxc-test-apparmor
>     lxc-test-apparmor-mount
>     lxc-test-cloneconfig
>     lxc-test-ubuntu
>     lxc-test-unpriv
>             
> My kernel config for 4.1-rc6 was based on running `make olddefconfig'
> from vivid's kernel.
> 
> Digging around a little I see that the ubuntu kernel carries some
> features/patches for LXC (e.g., security/apparmor/mount.c) that are not
> in the mainline kernel. Is there a plan/timeframe where these features
> will end up in the mainline kernel?

It's something we've been wanting to upstream for a long time, but
other works' gotten in the way.  John (cc:d), do you have a current
projected timeline?

thanks,
-serge