On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 09:32 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Ping? Any news on this? Unfortunately I > don't have much understanding in kernel > internals to look at this... I haven't looked at it yet. I don't think it is the module, most likely something elsewhere. How have you established that the count is negative? > > 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 -- 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