Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: Another idea for simplifying locking in kernel/module.c | Date | Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:46:24 +1100 |
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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.
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