Andy Lutomirski wrote on Mon, Dec 07, 2015:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote:
> > Sometimes udevadm trigger --action=add hangs the system, and the splat
> > below happens. This seems to be timing dependent, and I haven't been
> > able to trigger it yet with lockdep enabled, sadly.
> >
> > Any ideas? I not, I'll try to instrument it better tomorrow.
>
> More details: this is caused by a storm of /sbin/hotplug UMH calls
> (yes, misconfigured kernel, but still). /sbin is a symlink to
> /usr/sbin, /usr/sbin/hotplug doesn't exist, and all of the above is on
> rootfs, which is 9p over virtio.
>
> Pointing uevent_helper at /usr/sbin/hotplug (which still doesn't
> exist) seems to work around it.
Can you reproduce it on a booted system with something like
`seq 1 1000000 | xargs -P 1024 -I{} cat /sbin/foo >&/dev/null` ?
(trying execs might be closer to your workload, not sure how much this
or using umh might change)
Also, what qemu version please just to try to match your environment ?
--
Dominique Martinet
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