On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:37:06AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > - /* Wait for RCU synchronizing before releasing mod->list and buglist. */ > > - synchronize_rcu(); > > + /* Wait for RCU-sched synchronizing before releasing mod->list and > > buglist. */ > > + synchronize_sched(); > > mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); > > There might be some reasons why the synchronize_sched() needs to be > within the module_mutex critical section, but safe freeing of memory > and the integrity of the list are not two of them. Doesn't hurt anything > unless someone is being very active with their modules, of course.
Yeah, I could not find anything that relies on that; but I'm not too familiar with all the module stuff -- although a lot more now that I was a few weeks back ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
