On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:16:23AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:12:04AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: > >> YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:53:45 -0800 > >> > (PST)), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > >> > > >> >> But there's a ton of architecture updates (arm, mips, powerpc, x86, you > >> >> name it), ACPI updates, and lots of driver work. And just a lot of > >> >> cleanups. > >> > > >> > I cannot boot 2.6.21-rc1; it falls into OOM-Killer. > >> > > >> > Interesting error message I can see is: > >> > request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 > >> > > >> > After bisecting, the commit > >> > Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent > >> > (id c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f) is to blame. > >> > > >> > Reverting it fixes the issue to me. > >> > >> /sbin/hotplug needs some module, but request_module() call /sbin/hotplug > >> loop? > >> Hm.. does the patch fix the problem? > > > > How does it loop? > > E.g. something calls the request_modle(), and if hotplug is using > socket(PF_UNIX) and af_unix is module, it also calls request_modle()? > > Just my guess though...
Ugh, why does anyone make af_unix a module these days. I thought only Debian was that foolish... :) It will be interesting to see if this fixes the issue or not. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
