Am Montag 04 Juli 2011, 14:10:43 schrieb Tetsuo Handa: > 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? There you go! http://userweb.kernel.org/~rw/boot.log I did not count all messages, but they are more than 50. :-) Thanks, //richard -- 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