Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for December 9

From: "Kay Sievers" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:06:47 +0100

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 00:34, Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:52:37 +1100
> Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> I have created today's linux-next tree at
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
>
> udevd is sitting there chewing up 100% of a CPU all the time.
>
> The machine is x86_64, running FC6.  It still happens with
> CONFIG_SELINUX=n.
>
> config:                 http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt
> dmesg:                  http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-akpm2.txt
> strace of udevd:        http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/strace.out.txt
>
> excerpt:
>
> close(9)                                = 0
> open("/proc/21707/stat", O_RDONLY)      = 9
> read(9, "21707 (hald-addon-stor) S 21033 "..., 255) = 240
> close(9)                                = 0
> open("/proc/22340/stat", O_RDONLY)      = 9
> read(9, "22340 (smartd) S 1 22339 22339 0"..., 255) = 245
> close(9)                                = 0

Maybe an event loop, caused by something.

Are you still able to run:
  udevmonitor --kernel
and see if we get events, maybe in a loop, from the kernel?

Kay