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From: "Jike Song" <albcamus@gmail.com>
To: "Max Krasnyansky" <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine"
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:02:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df9815e70802132102v7eb7d8e9k4d6b21ffa6325d0d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47ABC08C.8010101@qualcomm.com>

On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module loading/unloading
> and the stop machine.

I'm curious to know why it is called `stop machine', which is a queer
name without any relationship with its function.

Regards,
Jike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-14  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08  2:38 Max Krasnyansky
2008-02-08 23:11 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-14  4:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22  1:24   ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-22  1:38     ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22  1:47       ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-22  1:59         ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-22  2:16           ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-02-22 11:53         ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-22 22:41           ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-04  1:21           ` Rusty Russell
2008-02-14  5:02 ` Jike Song [this message]
2008-02-14  5:38   ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-04  3:51   ` Rusty Russell

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