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SubjectRe: cifs causes high system load avg, oopses when unloaded on 2.6.0-test11
At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> Hmm, this unload needs to hand back failure to module unload when it>>
>> can't nuke inodes etc. I'd suggest not using it as a module for the
>> time being.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> I don't see how I could pass failure back on module unload even if I
> could detect problems freeing the memory associated with cifs's inode
> cache - there is no place for return code info - see the caller ie the
> call to mod->exit() in sys_delete_module (about line 735 of
> kernel/module.c)

Right, the facility isn't there. Maybe making the thing not-unloadable
would be the best option for the time being.


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