Re: [BISECTED] 5.12 hangs at reboot

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Apr 26 2021 - 15:51:49 EST


On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:46 PM Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Right. Maybe if it's modules, could try to remove them rather than
> reboot?

Yes, doing an 'rmmod ath9k' (or whatever that module is called)
sounds like a good idea, it might trigger the same lockup.

In fact, that might be the reason Harald sees this - maybe Void Linux
tries to unload modules before rebooting, and other distros don't?

Unloading modules doesn't tend to get a lot of testing, it's a fairly
unusual operation (and not one that is guaranteed to be safe - yes we
do basic module refcounting, but it's very basic indeed, not full).

Linus