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From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: kernel thread exit race
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Alan Cox writes:
 > 
 > On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 10:22, Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > > Hello,
 > > 
 > > what is the politically correct way to exit from a kernel thread daemon
 > > without module unload races?
 > 
 > You probably want to use completions. There is a function in the kernel
 > core "complete_and_exit" which does both the complete() and then the
 > exit() so that after complete finishes the task will not re-enter
 > modulespace and risk an unload race
 > 

Ah I see, thank you and Russell. But this depends on no architecture
ever accessing spinlock data after letting waiters to run, otherwise
there still is (tiny) window for race at the end of complete() call,
right?

 > 

Nikita.
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