Re: [PATCH v2] module: Don't wait for GOING modules

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On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 10:25:05PM -0800, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 02:40:20PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:58:53PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:51:27PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 04:47:05PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > > > Yes, the -EINVAL error is strange. It is returned also in
> > > > > kernel/module/main.c on few locations. But neither of them
> > > > > looks like a good candidate.
> > > >
> > > > OK I updated to next-20230119 and I don't see the issue now.
> > > > Odd. It could have been an issue with next-20221207 which I was
> > > > on before.
> > > >
> > > > I'll run some more test and if nothing fails I'll send the fix
> > > > to Linux for rc5.
> > > 
> > > Jeesh it just occured to me the difference, which I'll have to
> > > test next, for next-20221207 I had enabled module compression
> > > on kdevops with zstd.
> > > 
> > > You can see the issues on kdevops git log with that... and I finally
> > > disabled it and the kmod test issue is gone. So it could be that
> > > but I just am ending my day so will check tomorrow if that was it.
> > > But if someone else beats me then great.
> > > 
> > > With kdevops it should be a matter of just enabling zstd as I
> > > just bumped support for next-20230119 and that has module decompression
> > > disabled.
> > 
> > So indeed, my suspcions were correct. There is one bug with
> > compression on debian:
> > 
> > - gzip compressed modules don't end up in the initramfs
> > 
> > There is a generic upstream kmod bug:
> > 
> >  - modprobe --show-depends won't grok compressed modules so initramfs
> >    tools that use this as Debian likely are not getting module dependencies
> >    installed in their initramfs
> 
> are you sure you have the relevant compression setting enabled
> in kmod?
> 
> $ kmod --version
> kmod version 30
> +ZSTD +XZ +ZLIB +LIBCRYPTO -EXPERIMENTAL

Debian has:

kmod version 30
+ZSTD +XZ -ZLIB +LIBCRYPTO -EXPERIMENTAL

> $ modprobe --show-depends ext4
> insmod /lib/modules/6.1.12-1-MANJARO/kernel/fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko.zst insmod
> /lib/modules/6.1.12-1-MANJARO/kernel/fs/mbcache.ko.zst insmod
> /lib/modules/6.1.12-1-MANJARO/kernel/lib/crc16.ko.zst insmod
> /lib/modules/6.1.12-1-MANJARO/kernel/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel.ko.zst
> insmod /lib/modules/6.1.12-1-MANJARO/kernel/crypto/crc32c_generic.ko.zst
> insmod /lib/modules/6.1.12-1-MANJARO/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko.zst

Perhaps this was related to the above gzip issue in debian then.

I'm hoping will have a bit more time than me to verify.

  Luis



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