On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:30, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:31:13 +0100 "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > akpm2:/home/akpm# udevmonitor >> > udevmonitor prints the received event from the kernel [UEVENT] >> > and the event which udev sends out after rule processing [UDEV] >> > >> > UDEV [1228867146.103334] add@/class/bdi/9:0 >> > UDEV [1228867146.107566] remove@/block/md0 >> > UDEV [1228867146.111969] remove@/class/bdi/9:0 >> > UEVENT[1228867146.119889] add@/block/md0 >> > UEVENT[1228867146.119964] add@/class/bdi/9:0 >> > UEVENT[1228867146.120162] remove@/class/bdi/9:0 >> > UEVENT[1228867146.120205] remove@/block/md0 >> > UDEV [1228867146.122839] add@/block/md0 >> > UDEV [1228867146.129125] add@/class/bdi/9:0 >> > UDEV [1228867146.133459] remove@/block/md0 >> > UDEV [1228867146.137813] remove@/class/bdi/9:0 >> > UEVENT[1228867146.145652] add@/block/md0 >> >> Weird loop, something is accessing /dev/md0, i guess, which creates >> the kernel device, and the event, which accesses /dev/md0 again and it >> goes crazy. Maybe caused by changes Neil did. > > I knew an Australian was to blame - it's just a matter of determining > which one. I added him alredy to Cc: with the last mail. :) I guess it's something like this: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=md;a=commitdiff;h=6ac9b8824fd2f82fff508eecc5c74cf797e93cb2 I really hope we can fix that change, as we want to have proper lifetime rules like this, where the devices, which are not used, do not show up. >> Do you use md devices on that box? > > Nope. Fine. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html