Re: export of sys_call_table

[Andi Kleen]

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[e-mail]> writes:

> 					   void *dataptr, int band, int flags)
> 	{
> 		int ret =3D -ENOSYS;
> 		read_lock(&streams_call_lock);

I don't think you really want to use any spinlocks this way. They would
make sleeping impossible and you could never legally do a copy_from/to_user
in your system call. And how else would you access dataptr ? 

More likely you want an atomic_inc(&modulecounter) or perhaps a rw
semaphore.

-Andi