From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] module: Remove stop_machine from module unloading
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:27:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5446432A.8060204@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppdweg5g.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
(2014/10/13 13:40), Rusty Russell wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * MODULE_REF_BASE must be 1, since we use atomic_inc_not_zero() for
>> + * recovering refcnt (see try_release_module_ref() ).
>> + */
>> +#define MODULE_REF_BASE 1
>
> True, but we could use atomic_add_unless() instead, and make this
> completely generic, right?
Ah, I got it. You might mean replacing atomic_inc_not_zero() in try_release_module_ref
with atomic_add_unless(), then we don't need to make MODULE_REF_BASE=1, is that right?
Thank you,
--
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-21 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-25 10:55 [RFC PATCH 0/5] " Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-25 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] module: Wait for RCU synchronizing before releasing a module Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-25 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] module: Unlink module with RCU synchronizing instead of stop_machine Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-25 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] lib/bug: Use RCU list ops for module_bug_list Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-25 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] module: Lock up a module when loading with a LOCLUP flag Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-26 5:30 ` Lucas De Marchi
2014-08-26 9:26 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-26 12:04 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] kmod: Support lockup option to make module un-removable Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-26 12:04 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] libkmod: support lockup module option Masami Hiramatsu
2014-08-26 12:04 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] modprobe: Add --lockup option to make module unremovable Masami Hiramatsu
2014-09-01 22:17 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] kmod: Support lockup option to make module un-removable Lucas De Marchi
2014-10-13 4:41 ` Rusty Russell
2014-08-25 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] module: Remove stop_machine from module unloading Masami Hiramatsu
2014-10-13 4:40 ` Rusty Russell
2014-10-21 10:34 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-10-22 4:25 ` Rusty Russell
2014-10-21 11:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2014-09-03 3:11 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] " Masami Hiramatsu
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