Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am Montag 04 Juli 2011, 13:51:55 schrieb Tetsuo Handa: > > Richard Weinberger wrote: > > > Running a x86_64 kernel without ia32 emulation and a x86 user land > > > triggers this issue. > > > > Executing /sbin/modprobe for x86_32 on an x86_64 kernel without x86_32 > > support? > > Yep. > > > Anyway, request_module() calls __request_module() but > > __request_module() stops at MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT levels of nesting. > > So, I think "infinite loop" cannot happen. > > Booting a x86_64 UML kernel with x86_32 user land triggers this issue. > I always wondered why the UML kernel hangs an consumes 100% CPU. That's strange... Would you show us printk() output like printk(KERN_INFO "Calling request_module()\n"); request_module("binfmt-%04x", *(unsigned short *)(&bprm->buf[2])); printk(KERN_INFO "Returned from request_module()\n"); for demonstrating that __request_module() cannot stop at MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT levels of nesting? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html