Greetings Paul,
On 3/15/19 12:19 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:36:19AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> 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>
>
> Applied. ;-)
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> Thanks. :)
>>
>> --
>> tejun
>>
>
>
when can this patch be found in the kernel mainline git repo? I'd like
to test and see if the patch that started this mail thread still occurs.
Thanks,
Eial.
