Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759415AbXKHCKX (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:10:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755001AbXKHCKL (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:10:11 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:44849 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754403AbXKHCKJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:10:09 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Jan Glauber Subject: Re: Module init call vs symbols exporting race? Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:10:07 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: Pavel Emelyanov , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <473031FA.2060707@openvz.org> <200711062341.34566.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <1194429690.6874.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1194429690.6874.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711081310.07697.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 893 Lines: 23 On Wednesday 07 November 2007 21:01:30 Jan Glauber wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > I've seen a symbol-resolving race on s390. The qeth module uses symbols > from qdio and although the loading order seems correct and the qdio > symbols should be available the following error appears: > > qdio: loading QDIO base support version 2 > qeth: Unknown symbol qdio_synchronize Looks like qdio does something which triggers qeth to load, but of course qdio isn't finished initializing yet so its symbols aren't available. It's not obvious what's triggering the load, but you could probably find it by using printk's through qdio.c's init_QDIO(). Cheers, Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/