On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:31:56PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:35:11 -0500
> Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Trying to remove netconsole, rmmod goes into a tight loop with
> > 100% CPU usage. It can't be killed with 'kill -9'. Shutdown
> > works, though. Kernel is 2.6.20 FC6 config, and I'm 99.9%
> > sure the module signing has nothing to do with this.
> >
>
> No it probably has to do with printing a message during module removal.
I just reproduced this, and something really spooky happened.
After echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger, the 'rmmod' process doesn't
show up in the backtrace. Everything else is there though.
The process shows up in a regular 'ps', but not in the sysrq output.
Most bizarre.
Dave
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