Hi! On 14:03 Wed 25 Sep , Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have an unused disk ( no mounted filesystems ) that I put to sleep ( > hdparm -Y ) and every 10 minutes, the link is reset to process a > request coming from a short lived process named "pool". I think it is > a kernel work queue. I inserted a dump_stack() but it stops when it > gets to the syscall and so doesn't trace back into what work item is > running. How can I figure out what work item is doing this? Maybe you could try something like this: printk(KERN_ERR "wakeup %d", current->pid); -Michi -- programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies