From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:39:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040417193942.GA17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1082179555.1390.102.camel@bach>
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:15:34PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > to these objects are gone, we get the section freed. That can happen
> > way after the completion of rmmod - as the matter of fact we could have
> > the same module loaded again by that time.
>
> Or you could skip the extra section, and keep all the module memory
> until later. Instead of a section marker, you then set the release of
> those static things to "static_release" which does the put on the module
> memory kref:
That will keep too much allocated after rmmod - it's OK to have one or
two fixed-sized structures pinned down for a while, but entire .data can
be too large to treat it that way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-17 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 12:40 [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks Maneesh Soni
2004-04-13 13:36 ` viro
2004-04-14 6:40 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-14 7:02 ` viro
2004-04-14 7:17 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-14 7:27 ` viro
2004-04-15 8:17 ` Russell King
2004-04-15 10:38 ` viro
2004-04-15 15:19 ` Russell King
2004-04-15 16:10 ` Greg KH
2004-04-15 16:13 ` viro
2004-04-15 19:14 ` viro
2004-04-15 21:27 ` Greg KH
2004-04-17 6:15 ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-17 19:39 ` viro [this message]
2004-04-17 23:45 ` Rusty Russell
2004-04-15 22:02 ` Greg KH
2004-04-16 15:24 ` viro
2004-04-16 18:03 ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-16 18:07 ` viro
2004-04-16 22:37 ` Greg KH
2004-04-16 23:46 ` viro
2004-04-17 0:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-17 8:07 ` Russell King
2004-04-17 8:22 ` viro
2004-04-20 16:16 ` Greg KH
2004-04-21 10:11 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-22 21:37 ` viro
2004-04-23 8:52 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-23 9:26 ` viro
2004-04-29 13:03 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-29 15:41 ` viro
2004-04-30 10:05 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 10:13 ` [RFC 0/2] kobject_set_name - error handling Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 10:14 ` [RFC 1/2] " Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 10:17 ` [RFC 2/2] " Maneesh Soni
2004-05-04 13:08 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-04-30 12:48 ` [RFC 1/2] " Dmitry Torokhov
2004-05-04 5:39 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-04 9:19 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-07 22:25 ` Greg KH
2003-05-09 10:05 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-05-09 10:09 ` [RFC 2/2] sysfs_rename_dir-cleanup Maneesh Soni
2004-05-11 23:33 ` Greg KH
2004-10-07 5:16 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-10-07 5:38 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-14 19:10 ` Greg KH
2004-05-11 23:32 ` [RFC 1/2] kobject_set_name - error handling Greg KH
2004-04-17 0:15 ` [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks Greg KH
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