Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jul 2020 05:48:34 +0300 | From | Jarkko Sakkinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] kprobes: Remove dependency to the module_mutex |
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:46:31PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:05:48 +0300 > Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > Add lock_modules() and unlock_modules() wrappers for acquiring module_mutex > > in order to remove the compile time dependency to it. > > This subject is a bit confusing. This is just wrapping modules_mutex in > kpprobes. We still have compile time dependency, e.g. module_state, right?
Yes. This more like a preliminary change to make that happen. The actual flagging is in 6/6 ("Remove CONFIG_MODULE dependency").
Maybe a better angle would be to make this update all sites that deal with module_mutex [*] and base the whole rationale on that?
[*] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200725024227.GD17052@linux.intel.com/
/Jarkko
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