From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758032AbYBNFi4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:38:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751686AbYBNFiq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:38:46 -0500 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.170.187]:18911 "EHLO rn-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750869AbYBNFip (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:38:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=r2A6n5+GAjIeIPAmL7hNWqYg6VGVs7ZBBvLhqwXK2uD3GpZDJXm658hYoSgvqcKVJBRtj2SiqBxL13I6Kpek8utd0yPiVy+BmxKwndUUA1Ahj+Zlsj+Qzubort3ehrVTUNw4gq4S/uYB8FmSVzm9HZfn0jX7FizVYJvtT/d4jkQ= Message-ID: <47B3D3DD.3070405@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:38:37 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jike Song CC: Max Krasnyansky , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Andrew Morton , LKML , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine" References: <47ABC08C.8010101@qualcomm.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jike Song wrote: > On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky 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