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From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
To: mcgrof@kernel.org
Cc: pmladek@suse.com, david@redhat.com,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] module: Update a comment describing what is protected by module_mutex
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 14:30:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221016123031.3963-3-petr.pavlu@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221016123031.3963-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com>

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
 kernel/module/main.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index a12e177ea81f..5288843ca40f 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -62,10 +62,11 @@
 
 /*
  * Mutex protects:
- * 1) List of modules (also safely readable with preempt_disable),
+ * 1) list of modules (also safely readable with preempt_disable, delete and add
+ *    uses RCU list operations).
  * 2) module_use links,
- * 3) mod_tree.addr_min/mod_tree.addr_max.
- * (delete and add uses RCU list operations).
+ * 3) mod_tree.addr_min/mod_tree.addr_max,
+ * 4) list of unloaded_tainted_modules.
  */
 DEFINE_MUTEX(module_mutex);
 LIST_HEAD(modules);
-- 
2.35.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-16 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-16 12:30 [PATCH v3 0/4] module: Merge same-name module load requests Petr Pavlu
2022-10-16 12:30 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] module: Correct wake up of module_wq Petr Pavlu
2022-10-17  7:26   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-10-16 12:30 ` Petr Pavlu [this message]
2022-10-17  7:27   ` [PATCH v3 2/4] module: Update a comment describing what is protected by module_mutex David Hildenbrand
2022-10-17 12:22   ` Petr Mladek
2022-10-16 12:30 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] module: Merge same-name module load requests Petr Pavlu
2022-10-17  7:43   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-10-18  8:52     ` Petr Pavlu
2022-10-18  9:18       ` David Hildenbrand
2022-10-17 12:54   ` Petr Mladek
2022-10-16 12:30 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] selftests: kmod: Add tests for merging " Petr Pavlu
2022-10-17 13:51   ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-12  9:03     ` Petr Pavlu
2023-01-13 14:45       ` Petr Mladek
2022-10-25 17:51   ` Luis Chamberlain
2022-10-25 23:01     ` Luis Chamberlain

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