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Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 04:56:04 +0100 From: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org> To: "Evgeniy Polyakov" <zbr@...emap.net> Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Runaway loop with the current git. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 21:26, Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:32:06PM +0100, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@...y.org) wrote: >> I don't know if it may have any bad side-effects. It moves the tty >> registration earlier, before we do pci, framebuffer, video, acpi >> registration. >> >> It boots fine here with and without initramfs. >> >> Maybe it makes the "dead" /dev/console in your initramfs working, then >> we at least know the problem. > > I will try this patch this Monday and report back the results. I was able to reproduce it with the .config you attached, and running it in kvm. It is caused by: "modprobe cryptomgr" called from swapper[1] This modprobe process does try to log an error, accesses /dev/console, which is not initialized in the kernel at that time, and the kernel module loader tries the load a module to support dev_t 5:1, which again runs modprobe, and ... Setting CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y makes it disapper. The patch I sent seems to fix it. The bug is handled here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12153 Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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