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From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] No more module removal -- Unconference track
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:43:23 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FD7E0B.7030806@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1408262344310.2992@pobox.suse.cz>

(2014/08/27 6:45), Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, David Howells wrote:
> 
>>> What I found is that the module unloading involving 2 stop_machine()s
>>> for each module removing. It must not be needed.
>>
>> IIRC, at least one of the stop_machine() calls was to prevent problems between
>> module removal oopsing and the symbol lookup trying to look up whilst dumping
>> the oops.
> 
> This would be solved if symbol lookup would be RCU-ized though.
> 

Yes, I did that :)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/25/143
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/25/144
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/25/145

Thank you,

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com

      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-27  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-19 14:48 Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-19 14:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 15:23   ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-19 15:40     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-08-19 15:47       ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 16:09         ` Dan Carpenter
2014-08-19 16:34           ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-08-19 16:59           ` Rik van Riel
2014-08-19 17:19           ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-19 16:43         ` David Woodhouse
2014-08-19 17:13           ` Grant Likely
2014-08-19 17:23             ` David Woodhouse
2014-08-19 15:54     ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-25 11:01   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-25 11:05     ` Jiri Kosina
2014-08-26  5:24       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-27 23:05         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-08-26 21:39   ` David Howells
2014-08-26 21:45     ` Jiri Kosina
2014-08-27  6:43       ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]

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