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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:43:50 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812051043.51417.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228394671.3732.77.camel@blaa>

On Thursday 04 December 2008 23:14:31 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Nothing takes a ref on virtio_pci, so even if you have
> devices in use, rmmod will attempt to unload the module.
> 
> Fix by simply making each device take a ref on the module.

Hi Mark,

   Taking a reference to oneself is almost always wrong.  I'm a little
surprised that a successful call to pci_device->probe doesn't bump the
module count though.

Jesse?

Thanks,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-05  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04 12:44 [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-04 22:46 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-12-05  9:02   ` Michael Tokarev
2008-12-05 13:17     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-12-05 14:55       ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-05 15:25         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-12-05 15:26           ` Greg KH
2008-12-05 18:30             ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-05 18:46               ` Greg KH
2008-12-08 11:49                 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: add PCI device release() function Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-08 11:49                   ` [PATCH 2/2] virtio: do not statically allocate root device Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-08 14:43                     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-08 14:58                       ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-05 18:33           ` [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-05 15:43         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-05 17:22           ` Jiri Slaby
2008-12-05 18:36           ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-05 18:54             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-07  8:30       ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-07 13:36         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-12-05  0:13 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-12-05 15:07   ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-07  8:22     ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-08 13:03       ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-08 14:46         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 16:41           ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-09 16:57             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 18:16             ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-10  9:49               ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-10 12:02                 ` Kay Sievers
2008-12-10 17:44                   ` [PATCH 0/6] Clean up virtio device object handling [was Re: [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref] Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-10 17:45                     ` [PATCH 1/6] virtio: add PCI device release() function Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-10 17:45                       ` [PATCH 2/6] virtio: add register_virtio_root_device() Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-10 17:45                         ` [PATCH 3/6] virtio: do not statically allocate root device Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-10 17:45                           ` [PATCH 4/6] lguest: " Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-10 17:45                             ` [PATCH 5/6] kvm-s390: use register_virtio_root_device() Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-10 17:45                               ` [PATCH 6/6] lguest: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name() Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-11  9:05                               ` [PATCH 5/6] kvm-s390: use register_virtio_root_device() Christian Borntraeger
2008-12-11 12:49                                 ` Cornelia Huck
2008-12-11 12:59                         ` [PATCH 2/6] virtio: add register_virtio_root_device() Cornelia Huck
2008-12-11 16:16                           ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-11 16:16                             ` [PATCH 1/4] driver core: add root_device_register() Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-11 16:16                               ` [PATCH 2/4] virtio: do not statically allocate root device Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-11 16:16                                 ` [PATCH 3/4] lguest: " Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-11 16:16                                   ` [PATCH 4/4] s390: remove s390_root_dev_*() Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-11 17:00                                     ` Cornelia Huck
2008-12-12  9:29                                       ` Cornelia Huck
2008-12-12  9:35                                         ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-12  9:45                                           ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-12-12  9:54                                             ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-12-12  9:45                                           ` Cornelia Huck
2008-12-12 19:07                                           ` Greg KH
2008-12-15 12:58                                             ` [PATCH 1/4] driver core: add root_device_register() Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-15 12:58                                               ` [PATCH 2/4] virtio: do not statically allocate root device Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-15 12:58                                                 ` [PATCH 3/4] lguest: " Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-15 12:58                                                   ` [PATCH 4/4] s390: remove s390_root_dev_*() Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-15 22:27                                                 ` [PATCH 2/4] virtio: do not statically allocate root device Rusty Russell
2008-12-11 16:56                               ` [PATCH 1/4] driver core: add root_device_register() Cornelia Huck
2008-12-11 18:23                                 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-12  8:42                                   ` Cornelia Huck
2008-12-12  8:56                                     ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-12  9:23                                       ` Cornelia Huck
2008-12-10 18:07                     ` [PATCH 0/6] Clean up virtio device object handling [was Re: [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref] Kay Sievers
2008-12-09 22:25   ` [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref Jesse Barnes

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