Re: 2.5.31: modules don't work at all

From: Flanigan, Ryan (ryan.flanigan@intel.com)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 22:09:28 EST


>>>>> "Adam" == Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:

    Adam> Ryan, thanks for suggesting that, as it would have taken
    Adam> me a long time to narrow it down that far!

np.

    Adam> It would help avoid duplication of effort if you could
    Adam> indicate how along you are with this problem. If you or

just a "test" build w/ PREEMPT enabled is when i noticed it. it
was the only thing i changed in the .config. so ...
i just wanted to isolate it a bit more before posting.

    Adam> someone else has nailed the problem and is preparing a
    Adam> patch, then there is no point in anyone else trying to
    Adam> duplicate that debugging effort. On the other hand, if you

i have only put in a few hours on the problem thus far, and plan
to continue tonight by looking to the "hold atomic kmaps across
generic_file_read" and "Forward port of get_user_pages() change
from 2.4" patch by Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>. thats my best
guess thus far. others might think differently (and they're probably
right).

    Adam> just noticed CONFIG_PREEMPT was the difference between your
    Adam> configuration and that of someone else who was running
    Adam> 2.5.31 successfully and are not actively debugging the
    Adam> problem, then I'll try to poke at it some more.

please do. im still _slow_ when dealing with these things.

    Adam> I already know that the error that trips insmod occurs at
    Adam> in modules.c, line 831, when qm_symbols gets an error from
    Adam> copy_to_user():

agreed and thanks for the info!
                                        
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