From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:46:24 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030110073328.9C6A22C0D2@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jan 2003 18:19:57 -0800." <200301070219.SAA12905@adam.yggdrasil.com>
In message <200301070219.SAA12905@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> Here is a way to replace all of the specialized "stop CPU"
> locking code in kernel/module.c with an rw_semaphore by using
> down_read_trylock in try_module_get() and down_write when beginning to
> unload the module.
And now you can't modularize netfilter modules.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-10 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-07 2:19 Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c Adam J. Richter
2003-01-08 11:46 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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2003-01-07 8:53 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-09 20:41 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-10 9:10 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-10 9:38 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-10 10:15 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-11 14:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-10 10:11 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-10 9:38 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-10 11:16 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-11 3:53 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-10 12:18 Adam J. Richter
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