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SubjectRe: [PATCH] percpu/module resevation: change resevation size iff X86_VSMP is set
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:36:19AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 04:11:55PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > commit 34f67df09cc0c6bf082a7cfca435373caeeb8d82
> > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
> > Date: Wed Mar 13 16:06:22 2019 -0700
> >
> > srcu: Forbid DEFINE{,_STATIC}_SRCU() from modules
> >
> > Adding DEFINE_SRCU() or DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() to a loadable module
> > requires that the size of the reserved region be increased, which is
> > not something we want to be doing all that often. Instead, loadable
> > modules should define an srcu_struct and invoke init_srcu_struct()
> > from their module_init function and cleanup_srcu_struct() from their
> > module_exit function. Note that modules using call_srcu() will also
> > need to invoke srcu_barrier() from their module_exit function.
> >
> > This commit enforces this advice by refusing to define DEFINE_SRCU()
> > and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() within loadable modules.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
>
> Looks-great-to-me-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Applied. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

> Thanks. :)
>
> --
> tejun
>

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