From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> To: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFE] Who's using a module? Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:27:24 +0300 [thread overview] Message-ID: <b623f4a2-8b9b-edd9-3546-281155d90d4a@yandex.ru> (raw) Once in a while there's a need to remove a module (for example because you rebuilt it, or to reload it with different parameters, or whatever…). And then doing `rmmod modulename` and `modprobe -r modulename` gives: rmmod: ERROR: Module modulename is in use If you're lucky, firing up `lsmod | grep modulename` will get you offenders inside "used by" column. But often there's nothing except the count above zero. It is very easy to reproduce if you check `lsmod` output for your graphics driver. I checked it on `i915` and `amdgpu`: when graphics session is opened you can't remove it and `lsmod` doesn't show who's using it. There's very popular and old question on SO¹ that at the moment has over 55k views, and the only answer that seem to work for people is insanely big and convoluted; it is using a custom kernel driver and kernel tracing capabilities. I guess this amount of research means: no, currently there's no easy way to get who's using a module. It would be amazing if kernel has capability to figure out who's using a module. 1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/448999/is-there-a-way-to-figure-out-what-is-using-a-linux-kernel-module P.S.: please, add me to CC when replying, I'm not subscribed to the list.
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