My loadable module registers its protocol family and creates
sockets. I provide protocol operations, bind(), release(), and mmap
(). The mmap handler uses remap_vmalloc_range to share a common
vmallocation between users. It works.
I want to be able to shut down cleanly, for system shutdown, module
unload, and other emergency events like device unregistration. I
don't know how to shut down my vmallocation, which ought ultimately
to be vfreed.
If there are users vmapped when I want to vfree, what do I do?
Can I vfree it anyway and expect the users to be unmapped for free?
Or do i have to do some kind of munmap() of all the users, first?
During system shutdown and module unload in particular, it seems that
by the time the __exit routine is called all users are supposded to
be gone and all sockets (hence all vmaps) released. In this
situation at least, can I just vfree safely?
For any help, thanks,
A Malton
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