kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

[Alexander Best]

On Tue Nov  9 10, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:10:28 am Alexander Best wrote:
> > On Tue Nov  9 10, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 6:46:12 am Alexander Best wrote:
> > > > hi there,
> > > > 
> > > > i posted this message on freebsd-questions@, but nobody could help me with it.
> > > > to me this looks like a bug, so i assume posting it again here on
> > > > freebsd-current@ might be better.
> > > > 
> > > > please keep in mind that the issue here is not the fact that the second attempt
> > > > to unload sound.ko/netgraph.ko fails. it *should* fail, because both modules
> > > > have dependencies. however it should fail with the first attempt. right now
> > > > kldunloadf() returns zero, whereas it should actually return EBUSY (just like
> > > > the second attempt).
> > > > 
> > > > i've attached two kdump outputs: one for the first 'kldunload' attempt and one
> > > > for the second. as you can see the problem is that for some reason kldunloadf()
> > > > returns zero, although it couldn't unload the module.
> > > 
> > > Did you get an error message in dmesg?  If you have manually loaded
> > > netgraph.ko (via netgraph_load="YES" in loader.conf or an explicit kldload)
> > > and then loaded other modules that depend on it (such as ng_foo.ko) then this
> > > is expected behavior.  What your kldunload has done is to remove the manual
> > > reference from loader.conf or 'kldload netgraph.ko'.  What this changes is what
> > > happens when you do 'kldunload ng_foo.ko'.  If you unload ng_foo.ko now, then
> > > netgraph.ko will also be unloaded when its last reference drops (in this case
> > > it looks like you actually have two ng_*.ko objects loaded, so you would have
> > > to unload both of them, but I will assume a single ng_foo.ko to make the
> > > explanation simpler).  If you had not done 'kldunload netgraph.ko' but had
> > > done 'kldunload ng_foo.ko', then the manual reference would have kept netgraph.ko
> > > loaded.
> > > 
> > > All this logic exists so that if you do 'kldload foo.ko' and it auto-loads bar.ko
> > > as a dependency, then doing 'kldunload bar.ko' will unload both foo.ko and bar.ko.
> > 
> > i have ng_ubt_load="YES" in my loader.conf and kldstat says:
> > 
> > Id Refs Address            Size     Name
> >  1   37 0xffffffff80100000 a2ddb8   kernel
> >  2    1 0xffffffff80b2e000 295e8    snd_hda.ko
> >  3    1 0xffffffff80b58000 85110    sound.ko
> >  4    1 0xffffffff80bde000 cf79e0   nvidia.ko
> >  5    5 0xffffffff818d6000 418c0    linux.ko
> >  6    1 0xffffffff81918000 80e8     ng_ubt.ko
> >  7    2 0xffffffff81921000 fa78     ng_hci.ko
> >  8    2 0xffffffff81931000 2bd0     ng_bluetooth.ko
> >  9    3 0xffffffff81934000 15e68    netgraph.ko
> > 10    1 0xffffffff81a12000 3efb     linprocfs.ko
> > 11    3 0xffffffff81a16000 4698     pseudofs.ko
> > 12    1 0xffffffff81a1b000 31b3     procfs.ko
> > 13    1 0xffffffff81a1f000 a37      linsysfs.ko
> > 14    1 0xffffffff81a20000 6f4      rtc.ko
> > 
> > also the same happens with sound.ko. i have snd_hda_load="yes". and i think
> > snd_hda is the only dependecy for sound.ko.
> > 
> > there was no error message in dmesg for the first kldunload attempt.
> > 
> > i think i understand the logic, however the current behavior does not confirm
> > to the description in kldunload(2).
> 
> Hmm, ok, fair enough.  Do you get the same behavior if you kldload ng_ubt.ko
> after boot?

i'll try that in a minute. this behavior also seems very odd:
 
1) kldstat reports netgraph.ko *not* loaded
2) kldload netgraph
3) kldunload netgraph fails with EBUSY, although kldstat reports only a single
   REF for netgraph.

could this be caused by an out of sync kernel and world?

cheers.
alex

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> John Baldwin

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