On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 04:11:55PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> commit 34f67df09cc0c6bf082a7cfca435373caeeb8d82
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed Mar 13 16:06:22 2019 -0700
>
> srcu: Forbid DEFINE{,_STATIC}_SRCU() from modules
>
> Adding DEFINE_SRCU() or DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() to a loadable module
> requires that the size of the reserved region be increased, which is
> not something we want to be doing all that often. Instead, loadable
> modules should define an srcu_struct and invoke init_srcu_struct()
> from their module_init function and cleanup_srcu_struct() from their
> module_exit function. Note that modules using call_srcu() will also
> need to invoke srcu_barrier() from their module_exit function.
>
> This commit enforces this advice by refusing to define DEFINE_SRCU()
> and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() within loadable modules.
>
> Suggested-by: Barret Rhoden <b...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.ibm.com>
Looks-great-to-me-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Thanks. :)
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tejun
