Ping? Any news on this? Unfortunately I don't have much understanding in kernel internals to look at this... Thank you! On 26.04.2012 17:41, Michael Tokarev wrote: > I'm not sure how but it appears that sometimes > after I stop autofs service, the module usage > count goes negative so the module can't be > removed anymore. > > This happens on 3.0.29 kernel on which I'm > testing stuff with the user<=>kernel interface > problem on mixed 32/64bit environment, but I > don't see any changes related to this in more > recent kernels. > > Current situation I have: > > $ lsmod | grep auto > autofs4 22422 2147483647 > > It happened when I stopped automount > (using /etc/init.d/autofs stop), before > this action the module had 1 usage count > (with only one automount map/mount in use). > > Before, when the daemon were stucking all > the time, I had to kill -9 it, and the usage > count was decremented correctly. > > It looks like something is decrementing the > usage count twice on the regular path, and > only once on error path. > > Thanks, > > /mjt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
