Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763618AbXKNF1g (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:27:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750967AbXKNF1Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:27:24 -0500 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.186]:30537 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751322AbXKNF1X (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:27:23 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ALBXQ9lHY3IV0sqj3XH2EuDTAoTkx73jgssh4+IqkOAg2A563y+MCGDI6XfhAnK4R3arLDMYH+GfxWZ7+WKE/ibK4dUkTjFBarCNzYRuRfyBjrQo17J9WxC/CUBonNGG18pzYnQgQFNo5JYoeQuyZm/jpm3RcgpOwP6XBwML6bQ= Message-ID: <473A8733.3000506@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:27:15 +0100 From: Gabriel C User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071004) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 References: <20071113175906.497a1a6a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <473A6E72.60503@googlemail.com> <20071113205544.2a7743b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071113205544.2a7743b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3215 Lines: 88 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:41:38 +0100 Gabriel C wrote: > >> Uff clone-prepare-to-recycle-clone_detached-and-clone_stopped.patch *really* spams. >> Looks like some programs are using this 'deprecated flag'. >> >> Could this have some CONFIG_SPAM_ME_PLEASE ?;) >> >> This is what I got in some minutes : >> >> >> --dmesg|grep 'used deprecated clone flags'|sed 's/.*] //'|sort -u >> fork(): process `artsd' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> fork(): process `firefox-bin' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> fork(): process `gcompris' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> fork(): process `qgit' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> fork(): process `thunderbird-bin' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> fork(): process `wish' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> fork(): process `xchat' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> fork(): process `kdbus' used deprecated clone flags 0x400000 >> >> --dmesg|grep 'used deprecated clone flags'|wc -l >> 151 > > hm, that was supposed to shut itself off after 100 messages: > > if (unlikely(clone_flags & (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED))) { > static int __read_mostly count = 100; > > if (count && printk_ratelimit()) { > char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; > > count--; > printk(KERN_INFO "fork(): process `%s' used deprecated " > "clone flags 0x%lx\n", > get_task_comm(comm, current), > clone_flags & (CLONE_DETACHED|CLONE_STOPPED)); > } > } > > I don't see how you got 151 instances. I guess I'm having another stupid > day. > No idea how I got this I just grepped the dmesg =) > Oh well. That's CLONE_DETACHED and I think Ulrich's question just got > answered. > > Which distro/version are you running? I'm using Frugalware Linux 'current' right now with the following software : -- sh scripts/ver_linux If some fields are empty or look unusual you may have an old version. Compare to the current minimal requirements in Documentation/Changes. Linux lara 2.6.24-rc2-mm1 #4 SMP Wed Nov 14 05:47:48 CET 2007 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Gnu C 4.2.2 Gnu make 3.81 binutils 2.18.50.0.2.20071001 util-linux 2.13 mount 2.13 module-init-tools 3.2.2 e2fsprogs 1.40.2 xfsprogs 2.9.4 pcmciautils 014 Linux C Library 2.7 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.7 Linux C++ Library so.6.0 Procps 3.2.7 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.12 Sh-utils 6.9 udev 116 Modules Loaded fuse pc87360 hwmon_vid eeprom adm1021 ext4dev jbd2 crc16 loop lp 3c59x intel_agp mii agpgart sr_mod parport_pc cdrom iTCO_wdt parport thermal dcdbas i82860_edac iTCO_vendor_support evdev i2c_i801 button pcspkr processor edac_core watchdog_core shpchp pci_hotplug watchdog_dev > > Thanks for letting us know.... > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/