From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: Fixing gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c. Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:01:15 +0800 Message-ID: <20100320010115.GA30561@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20100319234044.GA5127@jenkins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell To: Brandon Philips Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:59990 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752628Ab0CTBBX (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:01:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100319234044.GA5127@jenkins> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:40:45PM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote: > > Possible solutions: > > 1) Figure out the right place to drop the module_lock while waiting on > other modules to load. This boots and seems to work but who knows what > it will break. :) This might be the right fix after investigating > possible issues. I'm not sure that this is the problem. IIRC modprobe(8) in user-space is supposed to load all dependencies prior to loading the main module. So something must've gone wrong before bnx2/bnx2x was loaded. Please strace it to see why libcrc32c wasn't loaded successfully before the kernel ever saw bnx2/bnx2x. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt