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authorRusty Russell <[email protected]>2007-07-15 23:41:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2007-07-16 09:05:51 -0700
commit24da1cbff9cfce50868c2dfdcda82a68ac5cb707 (patch)
tree93f0e1f0f464d62b73b14fba4a2ab9216acdc924 /include/linux
parent6c675bd43ccc36927c855d53d2e0042cdd1074ab (diff)
modules: remove modlist_lock
Now we always use stop_machine for module insertion or deletion, we no longer need the modlist_lock: merely disabling preemption is sufficient to block against list manipulation. This avoids deadlock on OOPSen where we can potentially grab the lock twice. Bug: 8695 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Tobias Oed <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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