From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
sean.hefty@intel.com, dledford@redhat.com,
SiteGround Operations <operations@siteground.com>
Subject: Re: ref count of ib_ipoib.ko not incremented when an ip address is set
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:23:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160722152318.6a1e5f1a@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5791D642.9050609@kyup.com>
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:16:02 +0300
Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I accidentally saw that even having an ip address on an
> ipoib interface doesn't increment the usage count of the
> ib_ipoib.ko module:
>
> ip a l dev ib0
> 14: ib0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65520 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 256
> link/infiniband 80:00:02:d4:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:e4:1d:2d:03:00:00:f8:31 brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
> inet 172.16.0.150/24 brd 172.16.0.255 scope global ib0
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
> lsmod | grep ib_ipoib
> ib_ipoib 79026 0
> ib_cm 34144 3 ib_ipoib,ib_ucm,rdma_cm
> ib_sa 26598 5 ib_ipoib,rdma_ucm,rdma_cm,ib_cm,mlx4_ib
> ib_core 97620 10 ib_ipoib,ib_ucm,ib_uverbs,rdma_cm,iw_cm,ib_umad,ib_cm,mlx4_ib,ib_sa,ib_mad
> ipv6 374806 259 ib_ipoib,rdma_cm,ib_addr,[permanent]
>
>
> In this case I can rmmod ib_ipoib.ko which would remove,
> but in practice I've observed that when an ip address is set
> the underlying module providing the interface usually gets
> its ref count incremented. Is this normal or is a
> refcount increment is amiss?
>
> Regards,
> Nikolay
Network devices are always supposed to have module refcount of zero
and they can be rmmod'd safely. This was an intentional design decision
all the way back to 2.5 version.
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2016-07-22 8:16 ref count of ib_ipoib.ko not incremented when an ip address is set Nikolay Borisov
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