Re: [PATCH] Kmod optimization

[<tyler@agat.net>]

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:10:35PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> tyler@agat.net wrote:
> >
> >+/* Test if a module is loaded : must hold module_mutex */
> >+inline int is_loaded(const char *module_name)
> >+{
> >+	struct module *mod = find_module(module_name);
> >+
> >+	if (!mod)
> >+		return 1;

For sure it is. Sorry, my mistake :)

diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.16.5/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.16.5/include/linux/module.h linux-2.6.16.5-tyler/include/linux/module.h
--- linux-2.6.16.5/include/linux/module.h	2006-04-13 20:03:16.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.16.5-tyler/include/linux/module.h	2006-04-13 20:24:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -339,6 +339,19 @@ unsigned long module_kallsyms_lookup_nam
 
 int is_exported(const char *name, const struct module *mod);
 
+/* Test if a module is loaded : must hold module_mutex */
+inline int is_loaded(const char *module_name)
+{
+	struct module *mod = find_module(module_name);
+
+	if (!mod)
+		return 0;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+
+
 extern void __module_put_and_exit(struct module *mod, long code)
 	__attribute__((noreturn));
 #define module_put_and_exit(code) __module_put_and_exit(THIS_MODULE, code);
diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.16.5/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.16.5/kernel/kmod.c linux-2.6.16.5-tyler/kernel/kmod.c
--- linux-2.6.16.5/kernel/kmod.c	2006-04-13 20:03:16.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.16.5-tyler/kernel/kmod.c	2006-04-13 20:22:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 
 extern int max_threads;
 
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *khelper_
 	modprobe_path is set via /proc/sys.
 */
 char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";
+extern spinlock_t modlist_lock;
 
 /**
  * request_module - try to load a kernel module
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ int request_module(const char *fmt, ...)
 	static atomic_t kmod_concurrent = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 #define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50	/* Completely arbitrary value - KAO */
 	static int kmod_loop_msg;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	va_start(args, fmt);
 	ret = vsnprintf(module_name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, fmt, args);
@@ -84,6 +87,16 @@ int request_module(const char *fmt, ...)
 	if (ret >= MODULE_NAME_LEN)
 		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
 
+	/* We don't to load the module if it's already loaded */
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&modlist_lock, flags);
+	if (is_loaded(module_name)) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&modlist_lock, flags);
+		return -EEXIST;
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&modlist_lock, flags);
+
+
+
 	/* If modprobe needs a service that is in a module, we get a recursive
 	 * loop.  Limit the number of running kmod threads to max_threads/2 or
 	 * MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT, whichever is the smaller.  A cleaner method


	

	
		
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