Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:38:37 +0900 | | From | Tejun Heo <> | | Subject | Re: Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine" | |
Jike Song wrote:
> On 2/8/08, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rusty,
>>
>> I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module loading/unloading
>> and the stop machine.
>
> I'm curious to know why it is called `stop machine', which is a queer
> name without any relationship with its function.
I guess it's "stop the rest of the machine" and run this. Maybe it's
misnamed but stop_machine is kind of cool. :-)
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tejun
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