Re: 8-CPU (SMP) #s for lockfree rtcache

Alan Cox
2002-05-28T16:01:04Z

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