Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:04:07 +0000 (GMT)

> >At the same time another cpu may be walking the exception table that we free.
>
> Another good reason why locking modules via use counts from external
> code is not the right fix. We definitely need a quiesce model for
> module removal.

My spinlock based fix has almost no contention and doesnt require 64 processors
grind to a halt on a big machine just to handle a module list change. Sorry
I don't think it supports your argument

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