Re: [PATCH] Remove stop_machine during module load

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 03:02:33 EST


On Saturday 30 August 2008 05:17:34 Andi Kleen wrote:
> Remove stop_machine during module load
>
> module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
> the module into the global module lists. Especially on larger systems this
> can be quite expensive.

Thanks Andi, but doesn't this mean that we should be doing list_for_each_rcu
in all the kallsyms readers?

Rusty.
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