Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] module: add function to map address to containing module

Rusty Russell
2008-04-21T15:41:18Z

On Monday 21 April 2008 22:34:39 Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
>
> module_address() maps an address to the module containing it in either
> text or data section. Required by the gcov profiling infrastructure to
> associate profiling data structures with modules.

Locking problem; this isn't safe. Note that we block preemption to traverse
the module list. You could grab a reference, and fix up all the callers to
put it once they're done?

Thanks,
Rusty.