Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754896Ab0HWWrM (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:47:12 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:38464 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754199Ab0HWWrK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:47:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:43:04 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Christian Samsel , LKML , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 has returned? Message-ID: <20100823224304.GJ13371@kroah.com> References: <201008181143.04629.Christian.Samsel@rwth-aachen.de> <4C6C2DE9.2000509@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C6C2DE9.2000509@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1464 Lines: 35 On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:00:57PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > 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. Now queued up for the next .35-stable kernel release. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/