On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:31:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The module should remain in memory, "unhashed", until the final kobject > > > reference falls to zero. Destruction of that kobject causes the refcount > > > on the module to fall to zero which causes the entire module to be > > > released. > > > > > > (hmm, the existence of a kobject doesn't appear to contribute to its > > > module's refcount. Why not?) > > > > It does, if a file for that kobject is opened. In this case, there was > > no file opened, so the module refcount isn't incremented. > > hm, surprised. Shouldn't the existence of a kobject contribute to its > module's refcount? > > > > Maybe a shrink_dcache_parent(dentry) on entry to simple_rmdir() would > > > suffice? > > > > Will that get rid of the references properly nwhen we remove the > > kobject? > > That's one the dcache guys could address better, but I was mainly proposing > it as a way of removing any negative dentries. But it appears that we have > problems beyond negative dentries?
shrink_dcache_parent() will only free up the zero ref. counted dentries, positive or negatvie doesnot matter. But we may have some faulty user space app holding a sysfs file, sysfs directory, corresponding kobject, module etc. Refer http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884 (Greg, I am including the reply for other thread also here) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108059485726012&w=2 Fix for these problems will depend upon the life time rule for modules Vs kobjects Vs dentries. When and what should die or live? I am not very clear about how the first two behave. Still I can think of a solution within sysfs like this as Alen suggested. But again I am not very sure if this can be done properly without any races. But anyway I am trying. 1) backout my patch sysfs-pin-kobject.patch 2) handle NULL d_fsdata while trying to access the corresponding kobject for an attribute file. Maneesh -- Maneesh Soni Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 91-80-25044999 Fax: 91-80-25268553 T/L : 9243696 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
