Comment 15 for bug 1292400

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote :

It is not clear that udev is implicated here, the first instance seems to be:

    [ 240.608612] INFO: task kworker/0:2:861 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
    [ 240.608617] Not tainted 3.13.0-17-generic #37-Ubuntu
    [ 240.608618] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
    [ 240.608620] kworker/0:2 D ffff88001e414440 0 861 2 0x00000000
    [ 240.608628] Workqueue: events hot_add_req [hv_balloon]

This implies a memory balloon event is occuring. Udev is likely a victim of whatever locks are held by that.