On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:49:05PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> A while ago, on linux-kernel, we had a discussion about
> adding support for __initdata and __init in modules. Somebody
> (whose name escapes me) had implemented it by essentially adding
> a vmrealloc() facility in the kernel. I think I've thought of a
> simpler way, that would require almost no kernel changes.
>
[implementation details snipped]
While you are at this, you could make the .exit.{text,data}
sections swappable for modules (by allocating swappable pages fro
them?) and only mark them unswappable, while the module is
exiting.
Rationale: A device needed for swaping will never call exit
stuff, because it is still in use. So I see no obvious race here.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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