> I'll try and backtrack to the userspace process that is sending these ioctls. > The userspace process is qemu. I compiled qemu from latest source, installed via "sudo make install" on host-machine, rebooted the host-machine, and booted up the guest-machine on the host-machine. Now, no kernel-flooding is seen on the host-machine. For me, the issue is thus closed-invalid; admins may take the necessary action to officially mark ;) Thanks and Regards, Ajay