Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:39:42 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks |
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:15:34PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > to these objects are gone, we get the section freed. That can happen > > way after the completion of rmmod - as the matter of fact we could have > > the same module loaded again by that time. > > Or you could skip the extra section, and keep all the module memory > until later. Instead of a section marker, you then set the release of > those static things to "static_release" which does the put on the module > memory kref:
That will keep too much allocated after rmmod - it's OK to have one or two fixed-sized structures pinned down for a while, but entire .data can be too large to treat it that way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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