From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: brandon@ifup.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: Fixing gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c.
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:46:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319.194612.226782074.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100320010849.GA30654@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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. Please strace it to see why libcrc32c
>> wasn't loaded successfully before the kernel ever saw bnx2/bnx2x.
>
> In fact I just tried it on my machine and modprobe bnx2x correctly
> loaded libcrc32c + crc32c before loading bnx2x (you don't need the
> hardware, it'll stay loaded). My kernel is 2.6.33-rc8.
>
> I suspect it's a user-space problem. I'm using module-init-tools
> 3.4-1 from Debian.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-20 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 23:40 Fixing gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c Brandon Philips
2010-03-20 1:01 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 1:08 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 2:46 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-03-20 3:45 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 4:21 ` Brandon Philips
2010-03-20 4:24 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 5:23 ` David Miller
2010-03-20 12:29 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-20 13:16 ` Neil Horman
2010-03-29 23:06 ` Rusty Russell
2010-03-31 19:03 ` Brandon Philips
2010-03-31 23:25 ` Rusty Russell
2010-03-30 16:50 ` Brandon Philips
2010-03-30 17:47 ` Kay Sievers
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