Re: protection against module unloading ?

2015-07-13 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:56:36PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 06:29:12PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:00:30PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > ... > > > thanks a lot for the clarification on the intent. > > > I clearly need to understand more

Re: protection against module unloading ?

2015-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 06:29:12PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:00:30PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > > thanks a lot for the clarification on the intent. > > I clearly need to understand more on the architecture of the module unload. > > > > In any case: the glo

Re: protection against module unloading ?

2015-07-13 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:00:30PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:46:03PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:28:40PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am trying to understand how to protect efficiently against > > > module removals whe

Re: protection against module unloading ?

2015-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:46:03PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:28:40PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to understand how to protect efficiently against > > module removals when a device driver is in use. > > This issue came up some time ago when

Re: protection against module unloading ?

2015-07-13 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 02:28:40PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to understand how to protect efficiently against > module removals when a device driver is in use. > This issue came up some time ago when trying netmap > loaded as a module. > > --- Summary of the current mode of ope