From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:32:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306213203.GJ27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603061301.37923.dsp@llnl.gov>
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:01:37PM -0800, Dave Peterson wrote:
> Regarding the above problem with the kobject reference count, this
> was recently fixed in the -mm tree (see edac-kobject-sysfs-fixes.patch
> in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2). The fix I implemented was to add a call to
> complete() in edac_memctrl_master_release() and then have the module
> cleanup code wait for the completion. I think there were a few other
> instances of this type of problem that I also fixed in the
> above-mentioned patch.
This is not a fix, this is a goddamn deadlock.
rmmod your_turd </sys/spew/from/your_turd
and there you go. rmmod can _NOT_ wait for sysfs references to go away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-03-05 10:18 ` [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-05 10:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-06 18:14 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-06 18:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-07 17:03 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-07 17:20 ` Greg KH
2006-03-08 0:29 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-07 19:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-07 19:05 ` Greg KH
2006-03-09 23:51 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-10 0:02 ` Greg KH
2006-03-10 1:46 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-10 7:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 11:06 ` Tim Small
2006-03-10 11:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 17:46 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-10 17:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 19:07 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-10 19:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 21:13 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-10 21:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-11 1:57 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-11 7:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 19:31 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-06 19:52 ` Greg KH
2006-03-05 15:55 ` Greg KH
2006-03-05 16:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-06 18:52 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-06 19:53 ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 21:01 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-06 21:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-09 3:19 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-09 3:44 ` Al Viro
2006-03-09 5:51 ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 21:32 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-03-06 21:53 ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 22:24 ` Al Viro
2006-03-06 22:55 ` Greg KH
2006-03-07 10:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-07 11:08 ` Al Viro
2006-03-08 2:46 ` Rusty Russell
2006-03-07 1:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-03-07 1:57 ` Greg KH
2006-03-07 2:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-03-07 16:47 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-07 17:04 ` Greg KH
2006-03-07 17:06 ` Dave Peterson
2006-03-08 1:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-03-08 1:33 ` Greg KH
2006-03-10 0:44 Doug Thompson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-10 16:56 Doug Thompson
2006-03-10 17:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-10 17:28 Doug Thompson
2006-03-10 20:37 Doug Thompson
2006-03-11 17:04 Doug Thompson
2006-03-13 19:35 ` Dave Peterson
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