linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module loader should not complain about unknown symbol

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Message-Id: <1195042355.5167.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:12:35 +0000
From:	Jan Glauber <jang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Martin Schwidefksy <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module loader should not complain about unknown symbol

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 13:52 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: 
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 09:23:12 Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Better might be to put in a waitqueue and wake it up whenever a module is
> > deleted or changes status.  Then use_module() can wait if
> > strong_try_module_get() returns -EBUSY (up to 30 seconds, then print a
> > warning and fail).
> 
> And here it is.  Does it work for you Jan?

No, it hangs at boot time after starting udev. All CPUs are in
cpu_idle(). Unfortunately I've had no time for further debugging and
I'll be offline for the next 10 days...

-jang

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