From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine"
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:38:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B3D3DD.3070405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df9815e70802132102v7eb7d8e9k4d6b21ffa6325d0d@mail.gmail.com>
Jike Song wrote:
> On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rusty,
>>
>> I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module loading/unloading
>> and the stop machine.
>
> I'm curious to know why it is called `stop machine', which is a queer
> name without any relationship with its function.
I guess it's "stop the rest of the machine" and run this. Maybe it's
misnamed but stop_machine is kind of cool. :-)
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-14 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 2:38 Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine" Max Krasnyansky
2008-02-08 23:11 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-14 4:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22 1:24 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-22 1:38 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22 1:47 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-22 1:59 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22 2:16 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-22 11:53 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-22 22:41 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-04 1:21 ` Rusty Russell
2008-02-14 5:02 ` Jike Song
2008-02-14 5:38 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-03-04 3:51 ` Rusty Russell
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