Re: 2.6.29-rc3: weird process after resume

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 21:31:59 EST


On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:45:13 -0800 Alex Romosan <romosan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:25:20 -0800
> > Alex Romosan <romosan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> this is on a thinkpad t61p with an intel core2 cpu. i just noticed
> >> that after resuming from suspending to memory i get a weirdly named
> >> process. i did a ps before and after and the only difference was that
> >> before i had this process:
> >>
> >> [hda0/1]
> >>
> >> and after this one:
> >>
> >> [__?__;??____D__"?______]
> >>
> >> with everything else being the same. the laptop seems to be working
> >> fine and the problem could have been there for a while but i just
> >> didn't notice it. i am including my .config file. let me know if you
> >> need anything else.
> >
> > Were earlier kernels OK? If so, which version?
>
> i just tried 2.6.28 and there was no [hda0] kernel thread. 2.6.29-rc1
> and rc2 never resumed from suspend so i couldn't really try it.
>
> > What the heck is that kernel thread anyway? It looks like something
> > derived from an IDE device.
>
> i have no idea. hda is the cdrom (the disk is sata and shows up as
> sda).
>

<rummages through a 68MB diff for a while>

<finds a plum>

+ snprintf(qname, sizeof(qname), "hda%d", card->number);
+ bus->workq = create_workqueue(qname);
+ if (!bus->workq) {
+ snd_printk(KERN_ERR "cannot create workqueue %s\n", qname);
+ kfree(bus);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }

so it's not IDE after all.

commit 6acaed38a32e8571e92cfc832b971f9e4450c207
Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 12 10:09:24 2009 +0100
Commit: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon Jan 12 10:33:56 2009 +0100

ALSA: hda - Use own workqueue

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