[Lxc-users] unstoppable container

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 08/30/2010 02:36 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Papp Tamás (tompos at martos.bme.hu):
>    
>> Daniel Lezcano wrote, On 2010. 08. 30. 13:08:
>>      
>>> Usually, there is a mechanism used in lxc to kill -9 the process 1 of
>>> the container (which wipes out all the processes of the containers)
>>> when lxc-start dies.
>>>        
>> It should wipe out them, but in my case it was unsuccessfull, even if I
>> killed the init process by hand.
>>
>>      
>>> So if you still have the processes running inside the container but
>>> lxc-start is dead, then:
>>>    * you are using a 2.6.32 kernel which is buggy (this mechanism is
>>> broken).
>>>        
>> Ubuntu 10.04, so it's exactly the point, the kernel is 2.6.32 .
>>
>>
>> Could you point me (or the Ubuntu guy in the list) to an URL, which
>> describes the problem or maybe to the kernel patch. If it's possible,
>> maybe the Ubuntu kernel maintainers would fix the official Ubuntu kernel.
>>      
> Daniel,
>
> which patch are you talking about?  (presumably a patch against
> zap_pid_ns_processes()?)  If it's keeping containers from properly
> shutting down, we may be able to SRU a small enough patch, but if
> it involves a whole Oleg rewrite then maybe not :)
>    

I am referring to these ones:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=13aa9a6b0f2371d2ce0de57c2ede62ab7a787157
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=dd34200adc01c5217ef09b55905b5c2312d65535
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=dd34200adc01c5217ef09b55905b5c2312d65535

Are they small enough for a SRU ?

   -- Daniel