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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:33:31PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:50:06 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Indeed, an extreme form of insanity would be required to try to make core
> > RCU be a module.  Not that such a form of insanity is a bad thing in and
> > of itself, but it might best be directed towards less futile ventures.  ;-)
> 
> That's like making the core of mutexes a module. How would that ever work
> (without becoming a microkernel).

Someone somewhere has probably done it.  Perhaps you really could make
mutexes be a module within the Linux kernel using kpatch or similar.
Sort of, anyway.

Not saying it is not insane, mind you!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul