How to verify linux-next

[Randy Dunlap]

On 10/01/17 09:44, Damian Tometzki wrote:
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 01.10.2017, 21:58 +0530 schrieb Pintu Kumar:
>> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 09:28:09AM +0530, Pintu Kumar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I need to submit a patch to mainline which should be verified
>>>> against
>>>> linux-next tree with latest API.
>>> If you want to verify a patch that you intend to submit upstream,
>>> my
>>> suggestion is to *not* use linux-next, but rather use the latest
>>> tagged -rc from Linus's tree.  So for example, you might want to
>>> use
>>> v4.14-rc2 as your base, and then apply your patch on top of v4.14-
>>> rc2.
>>> And then test v4.14-rc2.  That way you don't need to worry about
>>> debugging problems that might be caused by code in other people's
>>> development trees.
>>>
>>> If you know which subsystem tree your commit is going to be sent
>>> to,
>>> you might use as your base the current development branch of that
>>> subsystem tree.  But in general, it's fine to use something like
>>> v4.14-rc2; if the subsystem maintainer you plan to be submitting
>>> your
>>> patch has other preference, he or she will let you know, or take
>>> care
>>> of rebasing your patch onto his subsystme tree.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> My patch is related to some test utility based on client/server
>>>> model.
>>>> So, I need 2 terminal, one for server and one for client.
>>> That implies you're running the commands to run the test by
>>> hand.  In
>>> the ideal world, tests should be automated, even those that are
>>> using
>>> client/server so that tests can be run unattended, over and over
>>> again.
>>>
>>> For example, here's an example of test involving a client and a
>>> server
>>> in xfstests:
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git/tree/tests/g
>>> eneric/131
>>>
>>> See?  No terminal required, and certainly not two terminals!
>>>
>>> Remember, it's important not just to run one test, because the risk
>>> is
>>> that fixing one bug might cause a test regression somewhere
>>> else.  So
>>> when I "validate" a kernel, I'm running thousands of tests, just to
>>> test the ext4 file system.  For each bug that we fix, we try to add
>>> a
>>> new automated test, so we can be sure that some future change
>>> doesn't
>>> cause a bug to reappear.  And if you're running hundreds or
>>> thousands
>>> of tests, you certainly aren't going to be wanting to manually set
>>> up
>>> each test by using putty to login to the VM using ssh!
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1) How to resolve linux-next build error with ubuntu virtual box
>>>> 5.1.28
>>> Virtual box is not relevant.  What is relevant is the kernel config
>>> file you are using, and what compiler version / distro are you
>>> using
>>> to build the kernel.  And as I said, you're better off using
>>> something
>>> like v4.14-rc2 instead of linux-next.
>>>
>> Ok thank you so much for your reply.
>> Now I am able to boot with v4.14-rc2. But now I am facing another
>> problem.
>> Now, I am not able to connect to internet from virtual box.
>> When I switch back to the default 4.10 the internet works normally.
>> I think the dlclient stopped working.
>> I am getting continuous logs related to apparmor like this:
>> apparmor="DENIED" comm=dhclient
>> apparmor="DENIED" comm=cups-browsed
>>
>> With 4.10, I tried installing apparmor-utils and then reboot with
>> 4.14-rc2, but it did not help.
>> Any suggestions on this?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> i resolved the issue with:
> sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop

or boot with: apparmor=0


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~Randy