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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Christian Samsel <Christian.Samsel@rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 has returned?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:00:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6C2DE9.2000509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008181143.04629.Christian.Samsel@rwth-aachen.de>

On 08/18/2010 11:43 AM, Christian Samsel wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to build a minimal kernel as Xen DomU, but stumbled across
> 
> [    0.029457] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
> [    0.029559] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> [    0.029973] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
> [    0.030662] msgmni has been set to 243
> [    0.099708] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> [    0.100482] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> [    0.101851] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> [    0.102534] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> [    0.106311] request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1
> (hangs)
> 
> after reading http://lwn.net/Articles/310472/ and comparing the output after 
> msgmni of a working kernel on a other machine i found the config option change 
> which breaks it:

Hi, you may want this:
31d1d48e199e99077fb30f6fb9a793be7bec756f

Adding stable to consider it for inclusion in .35 stable too.

-- 
js

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-18 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-18  9:43 runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 has returned? Christian Samsel
2010-08-18 19:00 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2010-08-23 22:43   ` [stable] " Greg KH

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