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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
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On 3/22/18 3:15 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>> If we can ensure that these usermode modules don't take *any time at all* on
>> their init *from the start*, it would be wonderful and we'd end up avoiding
>> some really odd corner case issues later.
>>
>
> I don't see why this issue needs to exist at all for the new stuff.
> After all, the new things aren't usermode modules per se. They're
> regular kernel code (modular or otherwise) that loads a usermode
> helper. All we need to do is to make sure that, if this is
> distributed as a module, that it's init routine doesn't wait for a
> long time, right?

I've implemented all of the previous suggestions and
now there are zero changes to kernel/module.c
I still need to finish tracpoint stuff first and polish umh code a bit
before sending new version.
Let's hold on this thread until then.

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