From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030929122333.C6871@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030929191352.10470.qmail@web40902.mail.yahoo.com>; from kakadu_croc@yahoo.com on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:13:52PM -0700
* Bradley Chapman (kakadu_croc@yahoo.com) wrote:
> He is right. I reverted call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-2.patch and everything
> works again. Why would that break the source of events/0 and hotplug?
That patch changes the SIGCHLD handler for kernel threads that are
started via wait_for_helper(). These threads are cloned from keventd
(hence events/0 as the process name), and they call hotplug. The child
is not being reaped properly.
thanks,
-chris
--
Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-29 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 15:50 [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1 Bradley Chapman
2003-09-29 16:41 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-29 16:42 ` Bradley Chapman
2003-09-29 17:43 ` Bradley Chapman
2003-09-29 17:47 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-09-29 17:49 ` Bradley Chapman
2003-09-29 17:54 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-09-29 18:01 ` Bradley Chapman
2003-09-29 19:09 ` Chris Wright
2003-09-29 19:13 ` Bradley Chapman
2003-09-29 19:23 ` Chris Wright [this message]
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