Re: [bug] hung bootup in various drivers, was: "2.6.21-rc5: known regressions"

[Ingo Molnar]

* Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> >  BUG: at drivers/base/driver.c:187 driver_unregister()
> >   [<c0105ff9>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
> >   [<c01063e2>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
> >   [<c01063f8>] dump_stack+0x14/0x16
> >   [<c063f7e6>] driver_unregister+0x3d/0x43
> >   [<c0488048>] pci_unregister_driver+0x10/0x5f
> >   [<c1b5f7c7>] slgt_init+0x9b/0x1ca
> >   [<c1b31a2d>] init+0x15d/0x2bd
> >   [<c0105bc3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

> Yes, we should allow the ability to call unregister_driver from within 
> the module_init function.
> 
> But I don't understand what is causing you to see this problem.  Who 
> is holding the reference on the struct device at this point in time?  
> Is it the fact that userspace has some files open and it hasn't 
> released them yet?

at least in the slgt_init() case the affected codepath is trivial:

        if ((rc = pci_register_driver(&pci_driver)) < 0) {
                printk("%s pci_register_driver error=%d\n", driver_name, rc);
                return rc;
        }
        pci_registered = 1;

        if (!slgt_device_list) {
                printk("%s no devices found\n",driver_name);
                pci_unregister_driver(&pci_driver);
                return -ENODEV;

slgt_device_list is NULL because no matching PCI ID is on my system (i 
dont have this hardware), so the ->probe() function did not get called 
at all.

i.e. a pure pci_register_driver() + pci_unregister_driver() sequence 
seems to cause a hang. I.e. it seems to be a pure driver-base-core 
matter.

	Ingo
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