From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Race between RCU and rmmod
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:30:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070502120051.GA13349@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30958.1178106624@redhat.com>
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:24PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> Hi Dipankar, Rusty,
>
> I seem to have found a race between RCU and rmmod. What I see appears to be
> an RCU destructor function that has a call pending but lives in a module, gets
> deleted before the RCU callback is processed:
>
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff880329b7>] [<ffffffff880329b7>]
>
> I think that rmmod needs to clear the RCU destructor queue, probably inside of
> __try_stop_module().
This is why we have rcu_barrier() although the corresponding documentation
patch seems to have got dropped. Modules that use RCU must call
rcu_barrier() in their cleanup routine.
Thanks
Dipankar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 11:50 Race between RCU and rmmod David Howells
2007-05-02 12:00 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2007-05-02 12:33 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-02 18:47 ` Andrew Morton
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