On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:17:55PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Quoting r. Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm pretty sure that any scheme that tries to use module reference > > counting will either be horribly complex, still have subtle races, or > > (mostly likely) both. > > Actually, it turned out to be the simplest solution - and quite > elegant since there's no room for mistakes: if query is going to be running > this means module is still loaded so we can take a reference to it > without races.
Don't you have a race between the point you make the call (pass THIS_MODULE) and the point you __get_module on it? what's keeping the module from disappearing between those two points? Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
