Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries | From | Alexei Starovoitov <> | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:21:33 -0700 |
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On 3/22/18 3:15 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:54 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote: >> If we can ensure that these usermode modules don't take *any time at all* on >> their init *from the start*, it would be wonderful and we'd end up avoiding >> some really odd corner case issues later. >> > > I don't see why this issue needs to exist at all for the new stuff. > After all, the new things aren't usermode modules per se. They're > regular kernel code (modular or otherwise) that loads a usermode > helper. All we need to do is to make sure that, if this is > distributed as a module, that it's init routine doesn't wait for a > long time, right?
I've implemented all of the previous suggestions and now there are zero changes to kernel/module.c I still need to finish tracpoint stuff first and polish umh code a bit before sending new version. Let's hold on this thread until then.
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