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From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: axobe@in.ibm.com, Rusty <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: rd.o module refcount problem
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:55:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030529102510.GA1251@in.ibm.com> (raw)


The module ref count for rd.o module is not adjusted and remains 1 while doing 
the following things. 

[root@llm01 mod]# insmod /sdb/linux-2.5.70/drivers/block/rd.o
[root@llm01 mod]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rd                      5568  0 - Live 0xf88b5000
[root@llm01 mod]# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/ram0
.
.
[root@llm01 mod]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rd                      5568  1 - Live 0xf88b5000

mount/umount of /dev/ram0 does not change the rd.o module ref count. 

So, who is supposed to release the rd.o module gracefully? 
Also mount /dev/ram0 should hold a ref and umount should release the same.

Same test on 2.4.20 looks correct and mount increments the ref count and
umount decrements the ref count.

Regards,
Maneesh

-- 
Maneesh Soni
IBM Linux Technology Center, 
IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.
Phone: +91-80-5044999 email: maneesh@in.ibm.com
http://lse.sourceforge.net/

             reply	other threads:[~2003-05-29 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-29 10:25 Maneesh Soni [this message]
2003-05-29 10:35 ` Russell King

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