Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:20:59 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module |
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David Howells wrote: > > Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > > I see two possible solutions. > > > > Either you make that function available to user space by your syscall. > > Not a good idea... the whole point is to make sure no one is in a syscall when > the module is unloaded. If you do it this way, the tail end of this syscall > can fight with the module unload code. > > > Or you find a way to hook into task termination. > > I'm already doing that... See the release() call on the fd. But this doesn't > stop someone from invoking a syscall at an inappropriate time. > > David Howells > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
The best solution is to have a stub which is always resident that does the inc/dec of the module count. This stub can reserve the syscall number as well.
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