Re: netconsole module cannot be removed

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:31:56PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
 > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:35:11 -0500
 > Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > 
 > > Trying to remove netconsole, rmmod goes into a tight loop with
 > > 100% CPU usage. It can't be killed with 'kill -9'. Shutdown
 > > works, though. Kernel is 2.6.20 FC6 config, and I'm 99.9%
 > > sure the module signing has nothing to do with this.
 > > 
 > 
 > No it probably has to do with printing a message during module removal.

I just reproduced this, and something really spooky happened.
After echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger, the 'rmmod' process doesn't
show up in the backtrace. Everything else is there though.
The process shows up in a regular 'ps', but not in the sysrq output.

Most bizarre.

		Dave

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