agreed. i've had this problem on two seperate systems, however i _am_
running a few other patches- notably the kpreempt patch. but again, no
problems at all until 2.4.10-pre12. i'll try some things in the morning
and see what i can come up with. i see you are doing swapon, however
have you tried mkswap over your loopdev? i can actually swapon just
fine, its mkswap that causes the panic.
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 14:59, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 08:55:11PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> > "steve j. kondik" wrote:
> > > hmm? both cryptoapi and loop-aes work just fine when encrypting
> > > anything but swap. this is _only_ with kernel 2.4.10-pre12. i would
> > > suspect something changed that breaks swap on loopdev in general in this
> > > kernel.
>
> > loop-AES encrypted swap works just fine on 2.4.10-pre12, see:
>
> But that's only your system. He obvious has a counter example
> (which may not be the fault of loop-AES, but something else, that has
> yet to be determined). So the two of you are now reduced to figuring
> out why his is broken as yours is not. Standard debugging situation.
>
> > # uname -a
> > Linux debian 2.4.10-pre12 #1 Thu Sep 20 20:15:08 EEST 2001 i686 unknown
> > # vmstat
> > procs memory swap io system cpu
> > r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
> > 0 0 1 4708 2708 1824 12856 19 28 682 623 223 119 5 74 21
> > # swapon -s
> > Filename Type Size Used Priority
> > /dev/loop6 partition 191512 4704 -1
> > # losetup /dev/loop6
> > /dev/loop6: [0301]:170184 (/dev/hda2) offset 0, AES encryption
>
> > Regards,
> > Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
>
> Mike
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