From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: 8-CPU (SMP) #s for lockfree rtcache
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:34:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020528183409.A23001@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020528171104.D19734@in.ibm.com> <20020528.042514.92633856.davem@redhat.com> <20020528182806.A21303@in.ibm.com> <20020528.054043.06045639.davem@redhat.com> <m3bsb06zt7.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> <1022605393.9255.116.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:03:13PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:45, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The next obvious benefitor IMHO is module unloading. Just putting
> > a synchronize_kernel() somewhere at the end of sys_delete_modules()
> > after the destructor makes module unloading much less nasty than it
> > used to be (yes it doesn't fix all possible module unload races, but a
> > large share of them and it makes the problem much more controllable)
>
> For 2.5 it would be much more productive to make sys_delete_module
> memset the entire vmalloced space of the module to an illegal
> instruction before returning
And gain tons of new atomic_incs and decs everywhere in the process?
I would prefer RCU.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-28 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-28 11:41 8-CPU (SMP) #s for lockfree rtcache Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-28 11:25 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-28 12:58 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-28 12:40 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-28 15:45 ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-28 17:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-28 16:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-05-28 18:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-28 17:24 ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-29 4:44 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-28 15:49 ` Robert Love
2002-05-28 16:25 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-28 17:09 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-05-29 17:44 ` kuznet
2002-06-03 12:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
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2002-05-28 19:57 Dipankar Sarma
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