From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 9 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:06:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20081209185237.8bb715d7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20081209153418.4628723d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f17.google.com ([209.85.219.17]:51793 "EHLO mail-ew0-f17.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766AbYLJAGt (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:06:49 -0500 Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so339203ewy.13 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:06:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081209153418.4628723d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Greg KH On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 00:34, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:52:37 +1100 > Stephen Rothwell wrote: > >> I have created today's linux-next tree at >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git > > udevd is sitting there chewing up 100% of a CPU all the time. > > The machine is x86_64, running FC6. It still happens with > CONFIG_SELINUX=n. > > config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt > dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-akpm2.txt > strace of udevd: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/strace.out.txt > > excerpt: > > close(9) = 0 > open("/proc/21707/stat", O_RDONLY) = 9 > read(9, "21707 (hald-addon-stor) S 21033 "..., 255) = 240 > close(9) = 0 > open("/proc/22340/stat", O_RDONLY) = 9 > read(9, "22340 (smartd) S 1 22339 22339 0"..., 255) = 245 > close(9) = 0 Maybe an event loop, caused by something. Are you still able to run: udevmonitor --kernel and see if we get events, maybe in a loop, from the kernel? Kay