From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:29:57 +0000 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: udevd appears to loop and use CPU in 2.6.39-git11 Message-Id: <20110601072957.GC3368@liondog.tnic> List-Id: References: <844A621A-66E5-42F1-8B15-C6C700A40A53@daviesinc.com> In-Reply-To: <844A621A-66E5-42F1-8B15-C6C700A40A53@daviesinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Davies Cc: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, joshuacov@googlemail.com On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:31:47AM -0400, Chris Davies wrote: > [1.] One line summary of the problem: 2.6.39-git11 experiences loop on /dev creation and later udevd loops using CPU > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Great, udev looping rings the big bell here: There's a user running 2.6.39 fedora kernels and reports the same issue of udev looping but only when loading a module which fails loading with -EINVAL. Reportedly, udev keeps trying indefinitely there: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id5522 Anyway, just a datapoint, it could be unrelated. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.