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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Fix some kallsyms_lookup() vs rmmod races
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:15:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070316101514.8a8ffbc7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FAD0F7.5090506@grupopie.com>

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:16:39 +0000 Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:

> Does freeze_processes() / unfreeze_processes() solve this by only 
> freezing processes that have voluntarily scheduled (opposed to just 
> being preempted)?

It goes much much further than that.  Those processes need to actually
perform an explicit call to try_to_freeze().

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16 11:44 [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Fix some kallsyms_lookup() vs rmmod races Alexey Dobriyan
2007-03-16 11:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-16 16:16   ` Paulo Marques
2007-03-16 16:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-16 17:16       ` Paulo Marques
2007-03-16 18:15         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-03-16 20:27           ` Paulo Marques
2007-03-16 20:49             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-17 10:36               ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-19  9:56             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-03-17  9:37   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-19 10:21     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-03-19 15:17       ` Paulo Marques
2007-03-19 23:23       ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-17  9:32 ` Rusty Russell

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