From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn_helgaas@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [patch] 2.4.21-rc1 Close rmmod race on ia64
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 21:02:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705763@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590723705748@msgid-missing>
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 12:43 am, Keith Owens wrote:
> ia64 is not taking the spinlock that closes the race between module
> removal and traversal of exception tables. It can result in oops when
> one cpu takes an exception while another is unloading a module.
>
> Other architectures take this lock. The patch is almost a cut and
> paste from i386, plus it removes a dead variable.
Applied for 2.4 (except I left in the archdata decl). Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-13 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 6:43 [Linux-ia64] [patch] 2.4.21-rc1 Close rmmod race on ia64 Keith Owens
2003-05-13 10:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-05-13 21:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2003-05-14 2:06 ` Keith Owens
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