* Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 22:33:23 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > +/* FIXME: Risky: returns a pointer into a module w/o lock */
> >
> > stupid question: since module unloads are so rare, why isnt this via
> > the same mechanism that CPU hotplug uses to securely unregister
> > CPUs? I.e. quiet all CPUs, disable irqs on all of them, then unlink
> > the module.
>
> That's what we do. This old locking stuff is legacy.
oh, wonderful :-)
> And here's the patch for the FIXME (which I put in to remind myself):
>
> Make module_address_lookup safe
cool :-)
finally we have a _really_ sane symbols subsystem. Kudos :)
Ingo
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