Re: [PATCH 4/6] rv: Remove rv_reactor's reference counter

[Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 05:49:02PM +0200, Gabriele Monaco wrote:
> Yeah I get your point. If I understand you correctly, what's broken is
> that we just return EBUSY and ignore that on __exit instead of doing
> something about it (set nop to all monitors using this reactor).

Yeah, EBUSY is ignored.

> I wonder if we shouldn't also fix this (using the module refcount).
> But that can be done in the future, I'm not even sure reactors as
> modules currently work.

Yes, let's worry about it when we allow building reactors as modules.

> Also, I'd need to verify this but depending on the order of exit
> functions, we might be seeing the same problems with built-in reactors
> when active on shutdown. I'm going to play a bit with this and see if
> this workaround of not deleting the reactor was introduced for that (I
> doubt though).

I'm not sure I follow. exit functions are never called for built-in
reactors. They are even discarded out of the built image.

Nam