Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760648AbXKMEIp (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:08:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756973AbXKMEIi (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:08:38 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236]:5851 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756801AbXKMEIh (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:08:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XrPPem4YF8pMRfsMiKw/yVGRKvc3TXg+x30tIzJZmF8Jzj2c2Jc/bRSlcqUr925zYWFBQKv5ZBdVZiHgp1SjDJSEU8886uL2FNCVuzTmGS3ECUQkuLvwloqqOwl7L0d3DDDkdriQOdRjcz1zCVBCAXGVESo3wlXzUhraTKtigVc= Message-ID: <804dabb00711122008t3baa8abbr81ef8ec37e8016a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:08:35 +0800 From: "Peter Teoh" To: "Rusty Russell" Subject: Re: [PATCH] module loader should not complain about unknown symbol Cc: "Jan Glauber" , LKML , "Pavel Emelyanov" , "Andi Kleen" , "Jon Masters" In-Reply-To: <200711131352.23244.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1194877107.5656.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200711130923.12616.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200711131352.23244.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 15 On Nov 13, 2007 10:52 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tuesday 13 November 2007 09:23:12 Rusty Russell wrote: > > Better might be to put in a waitqueue and wake it up whenever a module is > > deleted or changes status. Then use_module() can wait if > > strong_try_module_get() returns -EBUSY (up to 30 seconds, then print a > > warning and fail). > Will it ever go into a deadlock (or likewise DOS scenario) if modA dep on modB, but modB also dep on modA? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/