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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, Greg K-H <greg@kroah.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:06:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46264201.3060007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070418170652.7bee0952@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:41:10 +0900,
> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> <patch>
> 
> OK, I hit a bit on the code. Once I saved a reference to the completion
> in kobject_cleanup, it seemed to survive a load/unload testloop for a
> module registering a device. However, I still dislike this "list of
> waiters" approach, it looks too complex...

Heh heh, I'm amazed it actually works.  Agreed that the list walking
isn't pretty but adding completion to each kobject still feels like too
much of overhead just for release waiting.  Any better ideas?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-18 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-16 17:36 [Patch -mm 0/3] RFC: module unloading vs. release function Cornelia Huck
2007-04-16 18:30 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-16 18:47   ` Greg KH
2007-04-16 19:03     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-16 19:11       ` Greg KH
2007-04-16 20:20         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-16 19:38   ` Alan Stern
2007-04-16 19:47     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-16 19:52       ` Greg KH
2007-04-16 20:18         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-16 21:02           ` Alan Stern
2007-04-17  7:49             ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-16 20:44     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-04-17  2:55       ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-17  7:36     ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-16 18:53 ` Greg KH
2007-04-17 18:41 ` [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism Tejun Heo
2007-04-17 18:49   ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-18  8:11     ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-18  8:46       ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-18  9:35         ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-18  9:55           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-18  8:07   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-18  8:36     ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-18 14:53   ` Alan Stern
2007-04-18 15:26     ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-18 15:34     ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-18 15:45       ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-18 19:07         ` Alan Stern
2007-04-20  5:27           ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-20  9:11             ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-20 15:01             ` Alan Stern
2007-04-20 15:57               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-21 15:19                 ` Alan Stern
2007-04-20 15:40             ` Alan Stern
2007-04-21  0:03               ` Greg KH
2007-04-21 21:36                 ` Alan Stern
2007-04-22 17:40                   ` Greg KH
2007-04-23  7:08                     ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-23 19:47                       ` Alan Stern
2007-04-24 19:38                     ` Alan Stern
2007-04-25  9:00                       ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-25 20:13                         ` Alan Stern
2007-04-26  8:21                           ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-26 14:58                             ` Alan Stern
2007-04-26 15:12                               ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-18 16:11       ` Alan Stern
2007-04-18 16:38         ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-18 16:41       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-19 12:51         ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-19 13:13           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-19 13:48             ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-19 14:21               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-20  5:59                 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-20 16:35                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-20 16:52                     ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-20 17:59                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-23  6:40                         ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-23  6:53                           ` Greg KH
2007-04-19 17:19         ` Alan Stern
2007-04-19 18:39           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-19 22:37             ` Alan Stern
2007-04-20 16:35               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-04-21 15:30                 ` Alan Stern
2007-04-18 15:06   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-18 16:06     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2007-04-19 13:29       ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-19 14:20         ` Alan Stern
2007-04-19 14:49           ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-20  9:04             ` Cornelia Huck

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