Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:13:18 +1000 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: Deadlock patch for kmod |
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Kevin Lentin writes: > On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:34:10AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Hi, Linus. Below is a small patch that should fix a nasty deadlock > > with kmod: if a modprobe initiated by kmod does something that > > triggers another module load request via kmod, we have a deadlock. I > > hope I've got the process killing semantics correct. > > Is this the same problem that prevents the module probve for > scsi_hostadapter not to work. I've checked and the call is being made, but > modprobe just never gets called. I presumed it was because the > initailisation of one module is calling another.
I'm not sure. It will detect the case where a kmod initiated modprobe causes the loading module to attempt another module load via kmod. Apply the patch and tell us :-)
Regards,
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