Re: Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:46:24 +1100

In message <200301070219.SAA12905@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write:
> Here is a way to replace all of the specialized "stop CPU"
> locking code in kernel/module.c with an rw_semaphore by using
> down_read_trylock in try_module_get() and down_write when beginning to
> unload the module.

And now you can't modularize netfilter modules.

Rusty.

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