From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761613AbXIXRiT (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755892AbXIXRiF (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:38:05 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40653 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbXIXRiE (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:38:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:37:59 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] Seq_file add support for sorted list Message-ID: <20070924173759.GA1608@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Mathieu Desnoyers , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070924164950.006047409@polymtl.ca> <20070924165426.841607414@polymtl.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070924165426.841607414@polymtl.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:49:51PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Add support for sorted list in seq_file. It aims at changing the way > /proc/modules and kallsyms iterates on the module list to remove a race between > module unload and module/symbol listing. > > The list is sorted by ascending list_head pointer address. While I think we really want this patch I don't quite see how it's related to the markers. I think patch 1 and 2 stand on their own.