From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:24:34 +0800
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:21:03PM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote:
>>
>> Do you see how it is getting stuck though with modprobe bnx2 and
>> modprobe libcrc32c going at the same time though?
>
> Yes I agree that's a bug. Something in those
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:21:03PM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote:
>
> Do you see how it is getting stuck though with modprobe bnx2 and
> modprobe libcrc32c going at the same time though?
Yes I agree that's a bug. Something in those paths should simply
fail instead of waiting around.
Cheers,
--
V
On 09:08 Sat 20 Mar 2010, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > IIRC modprobe(8) in user-space is supposed to load all dependencies
> > prior to loading the main module. So something must've gone wrong
> > before bnx2/bnx2x was loaded. Please stra
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:46:12PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> Even if userland "does" this, nothing stops another thread
> from rmmod'ing the dependency in between the modloads.
>
> We have to handle this case properly in the kernel, no matter
> what.
Right, if that had happened I think the r
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:08:49 +0800
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> IIRC modprobe(8) in user-space is supposed to load all dependencies
>> prior to loading the main module. So something must've gone wrong
>> before bnx2/bnx2x was loaded. Pl
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:01:15AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> IIRC modprobe(8) in user-space is supposed to load all dependencies
> prior to loading the main module. So something must've gone wrong
> before bnx2/bnx2x was loaded. Please strace it to see why libcrc32c
> wasn't loaded successfull
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:40:45PM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote:
>
> Possible solutions:
>
> 1) Figure out the right place to drop the module_lock while waiting on
> other modules to load. This boots and seems to work but who knows what
> it will break. :) This might be the right fix after investi
Hello Herbert, Dave-
I have a little "lockup" in libcrc32c on boot and I don't know how to
solve it correctly but there are a few ideas.
First, note this bug is happening with bnx2x. But, since I didn't have
the hardware I added usage of crc32c to bnx2 to reproduce.
Here are backtraces of the tw
