Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:47:42 -0600 (CST)


On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> Question of the day for the VM folks:
> If CPU1 is loading the exception tables for a module and
> CPU2 faults.. what happens 8)

"loading" == in sys_create_module ?

The module list is modified atomically, so either we search the new table
or we don't, but we never see intermediate states. Not searching the new
table shouldn't be a problem as we shouldn't run module code until
sys_init_module time.

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