Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:47:42 -0600 (CST) | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15 |
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Question of the day for the VM folks: > If CPU1 is loading the exception tables for a module and > CPU2 faults.. what happens 8)
"loading" == in sys_create_module ?
The module list is modified atomically, so either we search the new table or we don't, but we never see intermediate states. Not searching the new table shouldn't be a problem as we shouldn't run module code until sys_init_module time.
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