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SubjectRe: [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1
* Bradley Chapman (kakadu_croc@yahoo.com) wrote:
> He is right. I reverted call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-2.patch and everything
> works again. Why would that break the source of events/0 and hotplug?

That patch changes the SIGCHLD handler for kernel threads that are
started via wait_for_helper(). These threads are cloned from keventd
(hence events/0 as the process name), and they call hotplug. The child
is not being reaped properly.

thanks,
-chris
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