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From: alutsista@gmail.com (Kacrut)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Unable to remove kernel module showing permanent using lsmod
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:47:15 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8AF703.8020502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=gbpQuyoEdqS4rqSjFmD4Eyye1PBJfLjG2D5R8@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/24/2011 01:38 PM, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:08, sakthi selvam<sakthi.cdm@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> But in my case, cleanup module also available in memory, after loading
>> the module. I used to check using the file in /proc/kallsyms for the
>> availability of cleanup module in memory.
> AFAIK, such thing could happen due to certain data structure(s) from
> that module that are continously accessed or locked. So, to avoid race
> condition ( and missing pointer), keeping the module in memory is the
> right way to do.
>
> But of course, AFAIK too, you can try rmmod -f. But the risk is all yours.
>
I got same problem too. Doing rmmod -f doesnt solve it. Any other solution?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24  5:08 Unable to remove kernel module showing permanent using lsmod sakthi selvam
2011-03-24  6:38 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-03-24  7:47   ` Kacrut [this message]
2011-03-24 15:05     ` Greg KH
2011-03-25  3:21 ` Dave Hylands
2011-04-17  6:19 ` sakthi selvam
2011-04-17 17:14   ` Mulyadi Santosa

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