Re: Probable module bug in linux-2.6.5-1.358

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 07:38:30 EST


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:26:22AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:01:47AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >>Also, when this driver is running, transferring large volumes
> >>of data, the kernel decides that there have been too many interrupts, and
> >>does:
> >>
> >>Message from syslogd@chaos at Wed Oct 6 21:22:57 2004 ...
> >>chaos kernel: Disabling IRQ #18
> >>
> >>This, in spite of the fact that interrupts occur only when
> >>DMA completion happens and new data are available, i.e.,
> >>one interrupt every 16 megabytes of data transferred.
> >>
> >>Who decided that it had a right to disable my interrupt????
> >
> >the kernel did because you don't return the proper value for "I handled the
> >IRQ" from your ISR.
>
> Do you know what that value is? I can't find it. I just returned 0
> and it worked for awhile.

IRQ_HANDLED is you handled the irq, IRQ_NONE if you didn't


> The kernel calls cleanup_module() and the printk() shows that it
> was truly called.

I fail to find where you declare module_exit() in your sources

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