Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753860Ab0HRTBD (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:01:03 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:59354 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751964Ab0HRTBB (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:01:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=qCniJIWTjHMtjZmSDxuQx/tfp4Pxy1gpmcG0oUcHZuB2MX25DdZHvuvKbQDGQIXg/+ 3I6jhg90mrF23nUl6tUkeymz1EoQHoC+TAVj5aIfiHo+5IHxOqk5Xo8NoABh65wBYKJ0 o3aQd0WVjE/eCOfiI8M63zEFuyoBY/VgpU96U= Message-ID: <4C6C2DE9.2000509@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:00:57 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 SUSE/3.1.2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Samsel CC: LKML , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 has returned? References: <201008181143.04629.Christian.Samsel@rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <201008181143.04629.Christian.Samsel@rwth-aachen.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1292 Lines: 31 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 -- 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/