Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:58:22 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Oops after merge of tty-next |
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> Sorry for the late reply. I'm using Gentoo Linux built from source > for ~amd64 (unstable).
Thanks
> The crashes all seem to be while the devfs process is running. One > thing strange I noticed is that I'm using Gentoo's "OpenRC" boot > system, but the crashes only occur when it is configured to start > services in parallel (rc_parallel="YES" in /etc/rc.conf).
I've not managed to duplicate this yet but I suspect there is a locking bug in one of the paths where devfs is opening the tty multiple times in parallel.
I may have to try building a stress tester for that.
Alan
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