From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] flush icache early when loading module
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:30:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123119059.16494.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508040234.49661.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 02:34 +0200, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> The patch below, created against linux-2.6.12.3, changes the sequence of
> operations performed during module loading to flush the instruction cache
> before module parameters are processed. If a module has parameters of an
> unusual type that cannot be handled using the standard accessor functions
> param_set_xxx and param_get_xxx, it has to to provide a set of accessor
> functions for this type. This requires module code to be executed during
> parameter processing, which is of course only possible after the icache
> has been flushed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Yes, well caught.
Rusty.
--
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman
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2005-08-04 0:34 [PATCH] flush icache early when loading module Thomas Koeller
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