Issue on 2.6.35.9 kernel with module insertion when Rootfs is NFS mounted

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi :)

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 20:07, naveen yadav <yad.naveen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> When I am trying to insert some modules on 2.6.35.9, I am getting some
> random crash's.
> There are 2 scenarios:-
>
> 1) When my rootfs is NFS mounted.
>
> In this case, when I insmod modules some get inserted and some gives crash.
> I have tried with following modules :-
> a)      ext2.ko ; size 93K ; status - successfully inserted
> b)      ext3.ko ; size 188K ; status - insertion failed
> c)      xfs.ko ; size 823K ; status - insertion failed
> d)      usbcore.ko ; size 243K ; status - insertion failed
>
> 2) When I created kernel Image using Initramfs, hence making all
> modules part of ramfs image
> all insertions are successfull

Hm, easiest thing first to check: are you sure you are inserting
modules that belongs to the currently running kernel's version? and
they were compiled with the same gcc options?

And furthermore, if they use symbol versioning, are they belong to the
same symbol version?

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Mulyadi Santosa
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