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

[naveen yadav]

Hi ,

Thanks for your answer,

Yes I am sure it is from same kernel and sams GCC version,
The same module if put in Initiramfs, works fine. only issue occur
when I build kernel with rootfs mounted from NFS.


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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