From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kristian Evensen Subject: Re: Updating variable shared between user and kernel space Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:29:41 +0100 Message-ID: <17e3a8f80903260829j38f5af65v57005a3f8ffd542b@mail.gmail.com> References: <17e3a8f80903260700y2908961ah2218fcd185a76f7f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:43317 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751611AbZCZP3o (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:29:44 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so610023fxm.37 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:29:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > See the "Writing Netfilter Modules" e-book rev March 26 2009, > section 4.6 "SMP problems". I just updated this because xt_quota, > which serves as an example, was changed recently to account for > the RCU patches, and so the explanation needed to change too. Thank you, that was the chapter I was using a reference. Kmalloc here I come. -Kristian