Re: Runaway loop with the current git.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Sat Dec 06 2008 - 11:09:37 EST


On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:10:33AM +0100, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Can you add something like:
> +++ b/kernel/kmod.c
> @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ int request_module(const char *fmt, ...)
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> + printk("XXX call modprobe %s %s[%u]\n", module_name,
> current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
>
> It may show which process is looking for /dev/console and causes
> modprobe to run, and maybe we get an idea what's going on. It may at
> least show if it's a /dev/console problem.

Its a modprobe with different pids tries to load char-major-5 and
char-major-5-1 in the infinite loop.

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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