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SubjectRe: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine"
Jike Song wrote:
> On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rusty,
>>
>> I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module loading/unloading
>> and the stop machine.
>
> I'm curious to know why it is called `stop machine', which is a queer
> name without any relationship with its function.

I guess it's "stop the rest of the machine" and run this. Maybe it's
misnamed but stop_machine is kind of cool. :-)

--
tejun


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