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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: "Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)" <Dennis1.Chen@amd.com>
Cc: "jbaron@redhat.com" <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Refine mutex and rcu method in module.c, kernel<3.2.9>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:44:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5ACE2A.2030807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491D6B4EAD0A714894D8AD22F4BDE043032910@SCYBEXDAG04.amd.com>

On 03/08/2012 12:48 AM, Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW) wrote:
> Adding dynamic debug maintainer -- Jason Baron...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 10:57 PM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Refine mutex and rcu method in module.c, kernel<3.2.9>
>
> 1. Add protection code for module_bug_list readers
> 2. Add a new module_bug_mutex as the mutex of the module_bug_list writers

Take a look at the comments in the code:

         /*
          * Strictly speaking this should have a spinlock to protect against
          * traversals, but since we only traverse on BUG()s, a spinlock
          * could potentially lead to deadlock and thus be 
counter-productive.
          */


module_find_bug() is called in a dying path...

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-10  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07 14:51 [PATCH 1/2] Refine mutex and rcu method in module.c, kernel<3.2.9> Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
2012-03-07 14:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
2012-03-07 16:48   ` Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
2012-03-10  3:44     ` Cong Wang [this message]
2012-03-07 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Cong Wang
2012-03-07 15:52   ` Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
2012-03-10  3:42     ` Cong Wang
2012-03-07 16:46 ` Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
2012-03-08  9:18 ` Rusty Russell
2012-03-08 12:18   ` Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
2012-03-08 16:13     ` Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)
2012-03-10  4:26       ` Cong Wang
2012-03-11 14:56         ` Paul E. McKenney

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