Re: Unable to unload kvm-intel module

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2011-06-14 23:10, AP wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
>> On 2011-06-14 20:30, AP wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On 06/13/2011 08:11 PM, AP wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>  On 06/11/2011 03:02 AM, AP wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  I am building kvm as an external module against 2.6.38-8 (Ubuntu 11.04
>>>>>>>  kernel).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Why?
>>>>>
>>>>> I did not want move to the new kernel from kvm.git.
>>>>
>>>> I generally find that it works well, though I only run it on servers.
>>>>
>>>>> I just wanted to
>>>>> upgrade to the latest kvm module for some development. Is there a way
>>>>> to use the kvm.git tree and only build and load kvm?
>>>>
>>>> kvm-kmod.
>>>
>>> That is what I am using and running in to the permanent module issue.
>>
>> What version of kvm-kmod? What are your steps to reproduce?
>>
>> I've just checked the kvm-kmod-2.6.39 release in an Ubuntu 11.4 VM, and
>> it's loading&unloading fine.
> 
> I am following the instruction that I found here under "building an
> external module with older kernels":
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Code
> 
> I ran:
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm-kmod.git
> cd kvm-kmod
> git submodule update --init
> ./configure --kerneldir=/lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/build
> make sync
> make
> 
> I am at:
> commit bed5dfdeb11cf3a749396e4c353018bae5aff66f
> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> Date:   Wed Jun 1 09:08:49 2011 +0200
> 
>     Update source link
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> 
> The kvm source comes from the kernel tree that is part of kvm-kmod i.e
> in the linux-2.6 directory.
> 
> Thanks,
> AP

Still unreproducible here - and unexplainable. Can you debug your setup
further, maybe following the suspect you had regarding CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD?

Jan


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