Re: [PATCH] flush icache early when loading module

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 02:34 +0200, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> The patch below, created against linux-2.6.12.3, changes the sequence of
> operations performed during module loading to flush the instruction cache
> before module parameters are processed. If a module has parameters of an
> unusual type that cannot be handled using the standard accessor functions
> param_set_xxx and param_get_xxx, it has to to provide a set of accessor
> functions for this type. This requires module code to be executed during
> parameter processing, which is of course only possible after the icache
> has been flushed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, well caught.

Rusty.
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