From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: Modules with list
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:15:57 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021127235506.5744F2C075@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:22:34 -0800." <200211270722.XAA23313@adam.yggdrasil.com>
In message <200211270722.XAA23313@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> >In message <200211260649.WAA22216@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> >> >This would only happen if someone says "rmmod --wait".
>
> >As I realized last night after I wrote this, there is a bug in
> >module.c. If O_NONBLOCK is specified, we shouldn't drop the module
> >sempaphore at all, for exactly this reason. A bug I introduced while
> >"cleaning up" the "--wait" path.
>
> >Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Then if you do "rmmod --wait" on some module that is in use,
> every lsmod, insmod and rmmod will hang while attempting to acquire
Sorry, that's why I said "*If O_NONBLOCK* is specified" (ie. still
drop it for the --wait case).
Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-27 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-27 7:22 Modules with list Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 23:15 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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2002-11-29 8:23 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-28 1:54 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-28 0:25 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-28 23:53 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-27 19:04 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 18:19 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 22:42 ` Keith Owens
2002-11-27 7:01 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26 16:18 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-27 17:05 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-11-26 6:53 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26 6:49 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26 22:40 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-26 4:06 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26 5:04 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-25 22:39 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-25 22:11 Adam J. Richter
2002-11-26 0:35 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-26 7:57 ` Ingo Oeser
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