Re: timing of module MODULE_STATE_COMING notifier

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Wed Sep 02 2015 - 02:17:40 EST


"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi, Rusty -
>
>
> I wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> > Notifiers suck for stuff like this :( Module state has many steps,
>> > so my preference has been to open-code explicit hooks. [...]
>>
>> You mean something like the trace_module_load()? (We will probably
>> experiment with hooking into that tracepoint instead of the notifier.)
>> [...]
>
> It turns out this works OK, except for EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL.
> Could we get a set of EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL's for the
> trace/events/module.h tracepoints (at least module_load and
> module_free)?

Sure, patch welcome.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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