Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio: make PCI devices take a virtio_pci module ref | Date | Sun, 7 Dec 2008 19:00:08 +1030 |
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On Friday 05 December 2008 23:47:06 Jiri Slaby wrote: > Michael Tokarev napsal(a): > > Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> On 12/04/2008 01:44 PM, 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. > >> It unbinds the device properly as any other driver. So what's the problem here? > > > > Here's what we get when rmmod'ing (a zero-refcounted but > > in use) virtio_pci (I did it by a chance, cut-n-pasted > > the wrong line): > > > > WARNING: at drivers/base/core.c:122 device_release+0x5f/0x70() > > Device 'virtio1' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. > > Modules linked in: ext3 jbd mbcache acpiphp dock pci_hotplug virtio_net virtio_blk virtio_pci(-) virtio_ring virtio > > > > Pid: 361, comm: rmmod Tainted: G S 2.6.27-i686smp #2.6.27.7 > > [<c012b81f>] warn_slowpath+0x6f/0xa0 > > [<c0110030>] prepare_set+0x30/0x80 > > [<c012067e>] __wake_up+0x3e/0x60 > > [<c01d1d25>] release_sysfs_dirent+0x45/0xb0 > > ... > > So why don't you fix the root cause and add such a crap into the probe > function (not even counting probe can fail later)? > > Fix the virtio bus instead.
Incoherent? CHECK Rude to bug reporter? CHECK Unhelpful? CHECK
Wow, you must be a *great* kernel maintainer!
Thanks for making us all so very, very proud. Rusty.
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