From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Modules updates for v5.3
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:38:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6fec7b7-40de-884e-a37b-f60dcc129c02@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whjTFKB3TPPkgCvMX9P+C=hy2ZjhQy7C5reTQKV6MtuOw@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/18/19 3:20 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:33 AM Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Modules updates for v5.3
>>
>> - Fix bug where -EEXIST was being returned for going modules
>
> Hmm.
>
> I have pulled this, but this change makes me a bit nervous.
>
> I have this dim memory of us having deadlocks in module loading
> because module loading triggered other modules to be loaded, and we
> had circular dependencies..
>
Interesting. I'll try to search around to see if I can find the thread.
P.
> This is from years and years ago (that whole state check is not
> recent), so my memory may simply be wrong, but I thought I'd mention
> it...
>
> Linus
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-19 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-18 11:33 Jessica Yu
2019-07-18 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-07-19 11:38 ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
2019-07-18 19:25 ` pr-tracker-bot
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